At the risk of thread creep, the Danair 748 accident occured on take off from 09 at Sumburgh. Not a new runway, it was built during the war but was upgraded in the mid 70s. Mainly by establishing cleared and graded areas, the groundworks into the sea were done to provide RESAs and a bit of ground for some approach lighting. The accident was one of the saddest days of my life. I knew all of the crew and some of the pax and it happened on the day I left Shetland to go to the S Pacific. I flew from Scatsta to Glasgow, in a 748, and hired a car to drive south. The radio reports started as I was passing Beattock and my immediate thought was that it was the aircraft I had just flown in on its return to Scatsta, as Sumburgh had been fogged out that morning. I arrived at my parents' house to some very worried faces.