Originally Posted by
er340790
Yup... and it never flew straight thereafter ever again.
Wiki has it that - following repairs - the aircraft continued in service with Dynasty for a further 12 years.
Originally Posted by
captplaystation
So many deviations/omissions /general misconceptions that it beggars belief, I can only assume the Commander was selected courtesy of his "hand-shake"
rather than his inherent piloting/technical abilities.
A little harsh, I feel - after all he and his crew did get it back on the ground with no injury to occupants, or - apparently - the airframe. Thinking one knows better than "the book" is certainly not specific to pilots from the UK, that's for certain! In any case, I suspect that the influence of the funny-handshake brigade went out of fashion around the same time as bell-bottoms and platform boots for men!
Why the bitterness?