The trip took 39 days with the actual flying time being 19 days . Thompson damaged her aeroplane G-ACUC ( VH-UUC ) when she made a precautionary landing at Megara, Greece, the flight to Australia was delayed by 20 days waiting for a spare part for a damaged wing.
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Hundreds of people gather outside MCAS Futenma to protest their arrival, believing that the crashes of Ospreys in Morocco and Florida earlier in the year and a precautionary landing by an Osprey in North Carolina in September demonstrate that Osprey operations will endanger the residential neighborhoods that surround the base.
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The Ospreys, which take off and land like a helicopter but fly like an airplane, were grounded after one made a precautionary landing at Camp Lejeune, N . C ., on Aug . 24 and a subsequent maintenance inspection revealed that a coupling on the aircraft's drive shaft had come loose.
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A U . S . military helicopter was hit by small arms fire and made a precautionary landing in Baqouba, 30 miles ( 50 kilometers ) north of Baghdad, as American soldiers fought militiamen of fiery anti-U . S . Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose forces have been responsible for much of the violence outside of Ramadi and Fallujah.
