Originally Posted by
HEATHROW DIRECTOR
WHBM.. I accept what you say and have to accept that my memory is slowly going. I was a Heathrow controller from 1972-2002 and truly have no recollection of the flights you mention. (Some ex-colleagues will now say it's because I rarely worked nights!)
HD,
Were you around when that EGLD Chipmunk landed near your tower during the night and was only noticed when dawn broke? So long ago I too have brain fade and incipient Alzheimers but it coincided with a big party at Denham but somehow no one remembered the sound of a Chippie departing into the gloom.
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