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Old 15th Feb 2007, 14:50
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shack
 
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The Prince of Darkness" or Iberia 2250/2251 was a feature of night duties.
That thing dropped me in it one day, I was GMC, very foggy day before ASMI, easterly runways and I cleared him to taxy to 10R. The lighting operator had set the route, you could only just see the inner taxyways so there was no way of keeping track it was just a case of waiting for them to tell you they were at the runway or the caravan telling you.
Suddenly there was a bundle of noise and an Air France Caravelle came hurdlling over the tower complaining of an aircraft on 10L. Yes, you can guess Fernando had ignored all the red stop bars gone to the wrong runway and lined himself up and poor old Henri had to overshoot. We used to reckon that they went round the bars in Madrid offering a few pesos to anybody that would fly the thing.
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