a/c flies to the wrong destination?
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In 1985, an Air Charter International 727-200 bound to Eilat from Orly. The tri-holer ended up at opposite located Aqaba/Jordan. Everybody was soon back to reality as a host of armored vehicle and jeeps surrounded the 727 !
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Another one pretty famous.
Story took place at ORY. An Egyptair 747-300 was arriving from NYC. In fact before finally landing to ORY, the 747 carried out an involuntary touch and go at Bretigny, an airforce base nearby !
Suddenly aware of his mistake when the aircraft had touched down, the captain put on the throttles to get airborne again.
Somebody told me he later changed his name and resorted to some plastic surgery to keep flying.
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Story took place at ORY. An Egyptair 747-300 was arriving from NYC. In fact before finally landing to ORY, the 747 carried out an involuntary touch and go at Bretigny, an airforce base nearby !
Suddenly aware of his mistake when the aircraft had touched down, the captain put on the throttles to get airborne again.
Somebody told me he later changed his name and resorted to some plastic surgery to keep flying.
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25th October 1960 was the date of the Pan Am excursion into Northolt. I watched it from the school playground. God am I that old!
Sat P3 on a Trident a few years later when the two senior chaps ahead of me tried to do the same. Didn't even get offered a beer in the Vanguard Club afterwards for my "prompt".
Loved the exchange between Belfast ATC and an Aviaco who was complaining about being left very high on radar positioning to 07. He suggested he was "going visual" and might just be able to get in without an orbit. Having succeded, and after landing, asked for taxy instructions. The controller suggested that he could help if he was on the ground at Aldergrove and not at Langford Lodge!
Sat P3 on a Trident a few years later when the two senior chaps ahead of me tried to do the same. Didn't even get offered a beer in the Vanguard Club afterwards for my "prompt".
Loved the exchange between Belfast ATC and an Aviaco who was complaining about being left very high on radar positioning to 07. He suggested he was "going visual" and might just be able to get in without an orbit. Having succeded, and after landing, asked for taxy instructions. The controller suggested that he could help if he was on the ground at Aldergrove and not at Langford Lodge!
Yep, all the old stories which have already been done to death on PPRuNe come out yet again, but not a peep on the latest one which prompted this thread. Stick to the subject people!
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Avman, Sorry to say, you are a bore.
For the record, since we are reminiscing, some of us anyway, I remember, yonks ago in RAFG. We were detached to Wildenrath while our runway was being fixed.
On the way in to Wildenrath one lovely summer evening, we heard the following conversation :
“Mission xxx, you are cleared to land” (Brüggen)
“Cleared to land, xxx”
A p a u s e.
xxx then proceeds to do a roller on the E/W runway at Wilders (same direction as Brüggen, more or less) and calls “Rolling, proceeding to Brüggen”.
Then we heard :
“We saw, you, we know who you are and we know where you are going, but don’t worry, we won’t tell if you won’t”. (Wildenrath, who always had an open direct line to Brüggen).
I still find it amusing.
Bless you Thumper.
For the record, since we are reminiscing, some of us anyway, I remember, yonks ago in RAFG. We were detached to Wildenrath while our runway was being fixed.
On the way in to Wildenrath one lovely summer evening, we heard the following conversation :
“Mission xxx, you are cleared to land” (Brüggen)
“Cleared to land, xxx”
A p a u s e.
xxx then proceeds to do a roller on the E/W runway at Wilders (same direction as Brüggen, more or less) and calls “Rolling, proceeding to Brüggen”.
Then we heard :
“We saw, you, we know who you are and we know where you are going, but don’t worry, we won’t tell if you won’t”. (Wildenrath, who always had an open direct line to Brüggen).
I still find it amusing.
Bless you Thumper.
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As we've drifted from inadvertently flying to the wrong destination to landing at the wrong airfield (there is a subtle difference), I can recall seeing in the 70s a JAL DC-8 on Juhu airfield (very short runway) just 4 or so miles from Bombay airfield. Damn good achievement to stop. BOAC had a VC10 land at the similarly laid out runway at Sharjah instead of Dubai (about 10 miles). In history, BOAC put a Stratocruiser into the wrong runway on Montreal Island. People have landed at the wrong airfield in Nairobi and more places than I would care to list here.
Whilst ILSs have virtually put paid to such incidents, with the main navaids of old (NDB and later VOR approaches), it was a lot easier to put down on the wrong airfield in poor visibility. Tired pilots, poor weather, primitive navaids- I won't cast the first stone!
Whilst ILSs have virtually put paid to such incidents, with the main navaids of old (NDB and later VOR approaches), it was a lot easier to put down on the wrong airfield in poor visibility. Tired pilots, poor weather, primitive navaids- I won't cast the first stone!
Regarding the Heathrow/Northolt mixups, I noticed the "LHR" and the arrow on the Southall gasholder only a couple of days ago, it's right alongside the Paddington railway. It appeared freshly painted.
But that's not on track for 27L/27R at all. It is on the 23 approach (is that where the Pan Am was heading) but way to the south of an approach to Northolt.
But that's not on track for 27L/27R at all. It is on the 23 approach (is that where the Pan Am was heading) but way to the south of an approach to Northolt.
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PA707 gasometer finals
Quote expat"Northolt also hosted a PANAM B707! Mk.I PA eyeball confused the then existing gasometers west of the airfield for a similar one west of Heathrow!"
Are those the same gasometers near North Sheen (now sainsbury's) where a flight inbound from Bombay lowered its undercarriage and delivered its stow-away? Ouch !
Are those the same gasometers near North Sheen (now sainsbury's) where a flight inbound from Bombay lowered its undercarriage and delivered its stow-away? Ouch !
