The Wrong Button?
This was re-broadcast today 17th Sept and is available on the BBC iPlayer for the next seven-days here:
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - The Preposterous Files, The Wrong Button?
As it says on the BBC Radio web page:
Files from the National Archive reveal preposterous acts: grand, petty and tragic. Julian Putkowski distills them down.
It's not a good idea to retract the undercarriage of a bomber when it is standing still on the runway fully loaded with 6 X 1000lb bombs. What, if anything, was Flying Officer Kenyon thinking?
Readers: Crawford Logan and George Gillespie
Producer: Matt Thompson
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
An interesting and fascinating story.