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Learn MoreCrew Bag FOD Shatters Hawk Canopy On 28 Jan 2016 Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CT-155 BAE Systems Hawk Mk 115 trainer CT155219, based at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta, was performing a Cuban 8 manoeuvre. In an...
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