Perhaps a pilot or ATCO might have knowledge but if it was a discontined approach it was probably entirely routine or the local news hounds would have been baying at the door.
I like the idea of a STOL Ryanair 738 hopping into the sky from Whitchurch. Perhaps it might operate a pan Bristol route - Whitchurch/Filton/Downs/Lulsgate.
Would certainly be quicker than the buses clogged up in the Bristol traffic and it might develop into an international service to Cardiff and Swansea.
BRS's passenger figures for June show nearly 584,000 passengers handled (up 8.5% on June 2009) and the second best June ever - after June 2008's 613,000.