When I was struggling to get through the Buccaneer OCU at Honington back in 1976-77, we were told one day about an incident which had happened the previous night involving one of Uncle Spam's finest going into Mildenhall. He had been passed nine-nine-something as the 'altimeter' setting and had set it as
twenty nine-point-nine something inches. As a result, he was hundreds of feet too low and I'd actually heard him going past Honington very low indeed...
We were told that, had Mildenhall been on the other RW, he would probably have hit the ground.
Of course this was long before radar altimeters and GPWS were fitted to all military heavies......wasn't it
?