U2@Akrotiri
just read LXXIV' s info on the sad crash at Akrotiri on 7 dec 1977.
on that day I was co-pilot on a Nimrod crew from Malta due to take off at about 0900. As we left the mess we heard, and saw the smoke from, the crash.
obviously our sortie was cancelled but had we left about 10 mins earlier our crew would have been in met and the ops block , which were both badly damaged.Our secrets box in ops was destroyed -lady luck smiled on us that day!
as a follow up about a year later when 203 squadron was disbanded any documents which could not be immediately found were obviously in the Akrotiri ops fire and written off!! this caused quite a lot of embarrassment when they subsequently turned up!!