According to what the pilot of GBAMJ told the AAIB, on 14 June 1997, he was returning from France, stopped at Lydd mid-day to refuel, and only at that time got the weather from Birmingham which he believed would favour the Easterly run at Shenington. He reports the cloudbase at 1,500, which was probably the height above sea level at Lydd. Shenington is 800 feet AMSL. And the cloud on his approach was even lower, as the wind had changed to a westerly, and the orographic had formed on the ridge.
We couldn't believe what we were seeing from the clubhouse; we had stopped flying an hour before because of the crap weather. And here he appears out of the mist, approaching downwind! surely he"ll go round...he cannot be serious...he needs to go round now! he touched down well past the midpoint, and just kept rolling, not only hitting the boundary hedge, but crunching right through it to the mini car park....
So what can we learn from his AAIB statement? not a lot! too bad they didn't interview the witnesses.
He was probably too tired to think straight, and his wife was waiting for him at Shenington with their car....
As other posters have said on this thread, there are usually several elements that lead to an accident. Certainly the displaced threshold could have been one. I hope the AAIB will in this case interview the witnesses.