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Old 9th Dec 2022, 15:55
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Baldeep Inminj
 
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Talking

I was a Holding Officer at BZN in the early 90's, and had the pleasure of working in the community relations office. I get a phone call from none other than the local MP Douglas Heard, who was also the Foreign Secretary at the time. I quickly hand off the phone to the 'real' CRO and a conversation ensues. Turns out that one of his constituents has complained that a VC10 took off over his house a 3am (if memory serves). The MP said it was completely uinreasonable to launch at such an hour and wanted an explanation. CRO promised to find out and call him right back.
The CRO spoke to Ops and got the story then rang the Hon. Mr Heard back with a delicious grin on his face...and explained to Mr Heard that he should have remembered the flight, as he was on it ...


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