Bean,
>I've now found a book which tells me that the aircraft met it's accident landing on runway 15 at LBA
Thanks very much. I have a vague recollection of seeing the lights of this particular aircraft as it hurtled downwind for 15 on th efateful night. Or maybe I'm wrong. There were lots of windy, dark nights in Leeds.
That overrun area at the 32/33 threshold end is seriously steep, IIRC.
H49, can you confirm that one of the wet-leased Airways Cymru B1-11s once landed on 28? This was a story circulating in Midland at one time. The story goes that the "arrival" was so firm that all the oxygen masks deployed in the cabin.
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