Anybody with better knowledge of this one?
About 1951 BOAC Comet landed at old Calcutta Dum Dum airport - not long enough for jets so allegedly hairy stop, and not long enough for even light load take-off. New airport not far away but no connection, so track beaten out by elephants. Story gets better as allegedly aircraft pulled to new airport by self-same elephants. Pilot Yorked - i.e. reduced to flying BOAC's York freighter service London-Singapore. Story told me in 1953 by my mother who worked for BOAC's ground handling agents in Singapore.