Convair Coronado Stranded at Birmingham?
This is a long shot, but can any PPruners recall, or have details of, an incident at Elmdon (that dates me?) in the mid-late 60s? My memory is a bit hazy on the details but I seem to remember that a Coronado was carrying race horses and landed OK but then found that the runway was too short to take off (sounds unlikely but that's what I recall). The eventual solution was, I think, to lighten the aircraft as much as possible, with only enough fuel to get to, I think, Luton, close the Coventry Road to traffic 'just in case' and go for it - and it made it. I think that there was quite a lot in the local papers at the time. Can anyone confirm this tale?