Originally Posted by
LTNman
So did any airline do newspaper flights in the 70's from Luton. Seem to remember a service to Jersey but that might have been a different decade.
Also seem to remember a newspaper flight from Luton crashing which I think was also going to Jersey but that might have been in the late 90's or early 2000's.
The Air Bridge - later Hunting Cargo - Merchantman continued to operate the 6 nights a week newspaper flights to Glasgow during the 1980's, Aer Turas did newspapers to Dublin circa 1970 with DC-4/DC-7 aircraft. They returned to operate the same flights with DC-8-63 aircraft in the mid-80's. Skyways Cargo used their FH-227 to take newspapers to Amsterdam during 1979.
EI-BNA 19/1/85. The airport wasn't very good at snow clearance then either.
The aircraft that crashed on approach to Guernsey was Channel Express F-27 G-CHNL on 12/1/99. The inquiry found the cause was the aircraft C of G was outside the flight envelope and the deployment of full flaps on final approach moved the C of G further aft causing the aircraft to stall. No blame attributed to the loading team, incidentally.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/...0112-0&lang=en