Originally Posted by
POBJOY
CHEV Surely he did not think Drakes Island was the IOW !!!
Dunno about that, but he did a 180 and headed south west, saw a smaller multi runway airfield with military aircraft parked and made a dive for it. We had just had SSR fed to the radar display in the tower and our tower controller nearly had a heart attack when he saw the height readout unwinding at an incredible rate; I rushed upstairs in time to see a Sea Harrier on base leg; tower controller alerted the fire service in case it had other problems and we got a vehicle with a 'Follow Me' sign standing by.
They wouldn't let him fly it back to Yeovilton either; sent in a 2 -seater with a pilot to take it back and he went home in the back seat.