ppheli - I'm pretty sure it was 1985 and the pilot's initials were A.R.
On the wheels up stories, I remember a Bristows AS330 got horrendous front wheel shimmy at Labuan, Borneo in 1982; there was damage to the oleo so the on site engineer scurried around to find something on which to land the nosewheel area. After shutdown, the engineer assessed the damage and decided to get to work, turning to open his tool cabinet....which was now supporting the aircraft nose as there'd been nothing else solid enough to hand
