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Old 13th Sep 2000, 22:47
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Just read an excellent book of aviation ghost stories compiled by the late Jack Currie. Particularly spooky was the story of a Halifax, on approach to a field after a mission, observed to go-around after an apparently perfect approach. The aircraft landed safely on the second attempt but the crew refused to talk about it.
Word eventually got out. Apparently, just short of the threshold (it was a cloudy, dark morning) they entered bright sunlight and below them saw a suburban street containing houses, kids, cars, the lot. Obviously, they had to go around but on the second approach all was normal and they landed safely.
Thirty years later, the pilot, now a senior manager with a manufacturing company, drove past the site of the now redeveloped airfield and.....
It was a housing estate.