A bit of a slippery customer.
Interesting to read of an Ambassador aquaplaning at Luton - it was perhaps something the aeroplane was prone to do. I remember how one day in August 1967 we laughed our socks off in the Autair ops room on hearing that Channel had a double upset with their 748s at Portsmouth.
Blow me down a few weeks later our Ambassador G-ALZS with 65 pax arrived one wet evening on the not over-long (in those days) Luton runway, aquaplaned and was written off. Fortunately nobody was injured but it taught me not to laugh too heartily at the misfortunes of competitors.
Writing of Channel (a digression here) ;we used to hold our breath at Luton whenever their fully laden Tridents struggled upwards to the warm summer skies. At these times it was said that the Sevres Porcelain at Luton Hoo was regularly rattled whilst the trees in the park shed their leaves and perhaps a branch or two.