Steve Hargreaves - Moderator Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Amazing footage from the mid 1970's..... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff S Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Someone I knew landed his Jodel on the M1 and taxied into Leicester Forest East services at around the same time. He was trying to get to East Mids but there was low cloud over the high ground and he wasn't instrument rated - at least that was his excuse. He got fined, IIRC and was quite upset they wouldn't let him take off again after the weather improved. He managed to manhandle it into an adjacent field thus limiting his expenses a bit ? The M1 wasn't as busy back then as it is normally now, I suppose. He was a member of Sutton-in-Ashfield sailing club and wasn't above buzzing the club. Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Crow Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Odd that he got fined - in an emergency you can land anywhere! The alternative can be messy. Maybe the powers to be decided he could have used a field I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff S Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 To be honest, I think Tim fancied the idea of landing on the M1. He was (perhaps still is, I haven't spoken to him for years) a happy-go-lucky chap. There obviously was a suitable field because he found one to take off from adjacent to the Leicester Forest services. I've tried to Google the incident but it was long before the internet and any mention of aircraft and the motorway always refers to the Kegworth crash on approach to E Mids in 1989. Tim Castledine's JOdel landing was before then - 1975ish? perhaps. Time flies. Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Probably got done for no road tax and number plates when he taxied into the services! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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