Originally Posted by
Null Orifice
Luckily I won the toss (or was otherwise engaged) and didn't get to do the Propulsion trade recovery of items from XV194 (the fleet fatigue lead a/c). My colleague Dave L**** drew the short straw for that particular task.
There is an 'interesting' story to the background of the Tromsø incident - I wonder if the above mentioned log book has any detail on this?
The log books only goes to 1970, he transferred to commercial jets (BOAC) then.
I saw the pictures of the aircraft in Norway, it didn’t look pretty.