Originally Posted by
blind pew
Gib and Heraklion were the dodgiest of places...
With the former the pax would ask whether we would go to Tangier for them to get a ferry across.
The later had a 707? parked in the lagoon ...suffered from rotor in the lee of the mountains.
Flew two approached on a DC9 in severe Turbulence at night...one of the few to get in but with hindsight wasn't very clever.
i think scotbill has some stories of old Rhodes Maritsa LOL
don't know whose 707 at HER overran....?
Beatours had a hard landing there and both them and Monarch had 707/720B undercarriage bogie failures whilst on turnaround