PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - BEA Trident London - Moscow 1971
View Single Post
Old 11th Aug 2016, 20:44
  #82 (permalink)  
DaveReidUK
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Reading, UK
Posts: 15,841
Received 213 Likes on 99 Posts
Originally Posted by GAXLN
It was "Zulu Oscar" operating BA4513 from Manchester which was the last Trident Three landing at Heathrow carrying passengers being a fraction of a second behind a LHR-AMS-LHR charter operated by "Zulu Victor". "Zulu Victor" had operated BA's last scheduled international Trident Three service to/from Copenhagen earlier that day. I was fortunate and had flown to Copenhagen and back then on that last Shuttle flight. Happy Days.
Interestingly, both Max Kingsley-Jones's Trident monograph and Keith Gaskells's "History of BA" quote Zulu Uniform as operating that AMS charter, Zulu Victor having gone tech earlier in the day.
DaveReidUK is offline