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A Flare For Landing
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 A British Hercules C. Mk. 5 (C-130J-30) aircraft launches a display of flare countermeasures just before being the first coalition aircraft to land on the newly reopened military runway at Baghdad International Airport on 1 July. The military runway was bombed by coalition aircraft and had been closed since the beginning of the war. Thanks to the help of the US Air Force’s 1st Expeditionary Red Horse Group and the 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron, the runway was repaired and is once again operational. The British aircraft was delivering cargo and passengers to Baghdad in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.. |
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