ByAlphaindia
Viscounts were the main aircraft used on the Leeds Bradford - Heathrow route during the period after BMA took over from BA on the route in 1980. So of course all the fleet visited Leeds. [They had also been used on the East Midlands - Leeds - Glasgow routes after they replaced the HP7s, Argonaut, DC3 etc!]
DC9s replaced Viscounts on the Heathrow route after the Leeds runway was extended.
Returning to the subject of the over-runs at Leeds, 'LT landing on runway 15 narrowly averted disaster by turning on to the grass south of the main runway and thereby avoided going down the embankment. Similarly the Rwy33 over run avoided going through the fence and on to the main Bradford - Harrogate Road by turning on to the grass south of Rwy 33. As I said before both could have been much worse and both were caused by late touch downs on wet, cross wind affected runways.
The Tristar also ran off the end of the by this time Rwy 14, due to late touchdown. It landed on a dry runway with about a 5kt headwind, carrying a full load of passengers and tankering fuel from Palma. The touchdown was well after the 'aiming point' and in fact very close to where the 'aiming point' had been prior to the runway extension.....leaving some 1300m for stopping.
H49