The truth... i think
Very old forum i know, however the incident Double Zero was referring to, right at the very top, i can confirm did actually occur; a large utility plane came in short or missed the landing strip completely and became, i fear to say, stuck in the mud. I know this because my grandad, who was an engineer on thorney at the time, was involved in the recovery, i have no further details on the specifics as this story was told to me a while ago and not in too much detail, however i do know that they totally bol**cked it up, the first heavy machinery the RAF actually drove over / transported over to the downed plane to recover it started to sink very very quickly, so they had to get more winches to pull that lot out first. Eventually they managed to recover the whole thing in a few pieces i believe.
- A 15 year old.