Having been out of the Uk for years, I used to only catch Airport when home in the UK on leave or if someone was good enough to tape it for me and post it out here.
I tended not to watch them in sequence and have just recently watched an episode which was all about a team of boffins and enthusiasts who all went up in a BA757 to watch Halleys comet or something.
The excellent BA captain on that flight - very entertaining fellow - was a guy called Douglas Ord (?)
On the next episode that I watched (only filmed 1 week later), the episode was "dedicated to the memory of Douglas Ord".
Was sorry to read that. I never found out what happened to him. Can anyone shed any light. He was an excellent candidate for television and also appeared regularly on the BA Fear of Flying courses.....