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Old Aug 31, 2006 | 9:14 am
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Originally Posted by magiciansampras
I know they used to do this in the past, but I'm pretty sure I've always had a taxi push us out. Do air carriers ever use reverse thrust to back up anymore?
Bae146s can back up using reverse thrust. I was on a SWISS flight that did this two weeks ago.
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