We cannot afford to write off this land.
Instead of continuing to write off the no man's land beyond the highways — that sprawl of gas stations, motels and fast-food restaurants — we should look at this acreage as a resource.
"I like being written off.
The aircraft was written off.
Underestimating or writing off.
Three Caribous were lost while operating with the detachment; A4-202 crashed near Porgera on 3 June 1965, A4-147 writtentten off after it landed short of the runway at Tapini Airport on 6 October 1968 and A4-233 was destroyed when it crashed at Kudjeru Gap on 28 August 1972.
On 23 February 1987, a Douglas DC-9 from Scandinavian Airlines landing at Værnes en route from Bodø Airport was written off after a hard landing on the runway.
One of No. 1 Squadron's Lincolns was written off after overshooting the landing strip at Tengah on 30 November.
It suffered no casualties during the campaign but two of its aircraft were written off: one that overshot the landing strip at Tengah in November 1951, and another that crashed into the sea off Johore after striking trees on takeoff in January 1957.
A key challenge for the London Legacy Development Corporation is the need to repay debts, yet some of these should be written off and the substantial increase in land values could be levered to fund genuinely affordable housing.
