'ISTR a couple of Lightnings doing something similar at Gutersloh' I recall that this also happened at Leuchars in 1969. QRA was scrambled and, as per SOPs, launched off down 09. However the in-use R/W was 27 and he met a colleague on his landing run whereupon he made the classic call. Fortunately our landing friend had a cooler head and went left too.