My worst experience was on a very unusual operation. In late summer 1972 BEA were operating a weekly Sunday rotation Blackpool-Palma with a One-Eleven and were selling day-return tickets on the positioning flight from/to Manchester for just £4, so got a lot of first-time flyers along for the ride.
Coming back into MAN the aircraft was all over the place, but I honestly thought that the pilot was having a bit of fun at the expense of his passengers – then again, maybe not, nobody would take those kind of liberties with his aeroplane. The lower we got, the worse it got, and there was quite a bit of yelling going on. When we finally got down, he told us that the crosswind had been at the limit, any more and we would have been off to Birmingham like Pete slf.
I later learned that the 1-11 was always a handful in a x-wind landing.