Originally Posted by
Barksdale Boy
I remember one evening (it was dark) in, I think, 1968/9 an Ethiopian pilot in a Canberra going off the runway (21) at Waddington during a practice diversion. Apparently he was deceived by the runway gradient into thinking that he had reached the end of the available concrete. I recall all this very clearly as I was SDO and so had to attend the incident; Viv W was DCF. A later report in Air Clues was entitled "Bundoo Bound".
Very interesting! I didn't think I'd get any replies, so thanks a lot for sharing that. Bear with me, but what was an SDO and a DCF? Do you remember by chance how bad the damage to the a/c was? I know this question crops on here several times, but is there an archive for Air Clues that dates back that far?
I've been hunting around for Canberra incidents at Waddington in 1968 (pretty sure it was that year, as all four Ethiopian Canberras were delivered that year) and found this, referring to a blown tyre causing WH944 of 231 OCU to come off the runway.:
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1960s-incident-logs - Could it have been this incident?