Originally Posted by
Haraka
I was at Aldergrove when the DC-9 landed at Langford Lodge. As I remember, among all the other RT confusion, it called for taxi instructions.
I stand corrected, other sources also confirm that the DC-9 landed and subsequently taxied for takeoff.
The erronous "touch-and-go" reference came from a Roger Bacon column in Flight some 30 years after the event, so I guess we can forgive the nephew's foggy recollection:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...y-2006-206590/