Originally Posted by
langleybaston
Does anyone remember the "negligent discharge" by a Hunter at Gutersloh, which just happened to be pointing at some offices ............. I seem to remember a hushed-up event in my time, so it must have been late 1960s?.......
That incident happened not long before I arrived at Gutersloh in April 1970.
When WW593 tried to destroy itself in 7 hangar (that would make it a II(AC) Sqn a/c) when a drip tray containing a nice cocktail of AVPIN and AVTAG caught fire, my colleagues, who were at Gut at the time of the ND, told me it was the same aircraft that had loosed off some rounds in the same hangar.
After the fire, WW593 sat forlornly out on the airfield with an even more pronounced anhedral than Sir Sidney Camm had intended. It was used a decoy on subsequent exercises.