Ah yes. I think he hit the puddle, stopped accelerating (was a big, long puddle) and decided to steer off to the left,ground-looping, rather than slide off the end into the village. In the following incident review, F/O was asked to recount all details from the very start. He replied; "Well, passing the Swindon junction, I realised with all the traffick ahead, I was going to be late...........", NE Ops Director interrupted ;" Er, yes, I didn't want y ou to go back quite that far "
I only did 1000hrs on the Gripper, all p2 and a fair bit of P1/s and remained very timid & complicant. I mean, very high going into NCL, my leg, Skip asked me why not go for reverse. I I told him I was really scared that it might not come out of reverse. I loved the gentle but masterful " I have " .
Fabbo days indeed.