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Kirkenes is right up on Norway's north cape and very close to the Russian border. Seem to remember Norfly having the odd service there from LBA back in the seventies. A/c was a Convair 440.

Presumably if it was off the normal SID then there would have been an instruction from ATC. Anybody listening at the time? Weather seems unlikely unless it's very different oop north than in the South Midlands. Other local(ish) traffic, track miles for sequencing with (eg) MAN arrivals or...

Re: Leeds Bradford Airport Overview [Updated August 2014] Thanks Seasider, that's the sort of operation I had in mind. One of my collection of Avion videos includes a BMA Argonaut departing 33 in the mid sixties and other photgraphs around that time show then charter operators including Air...

Re: Leeds Bradford Airport Overview [Updated August 2014] How far back is that Heather? I was an active enthusiast at LBA in 76 and remember ducking out of sixth form to walk from Aireborough GS to the airport and watching the inaugural BY flight depart. Don't remember Air Malta beating them...

Re: Leeds Bradford Airport Overview [Updated August 2014] I see the heading quotes the oft reported line that IT flights to Spain started in 1976. While that's certainly true of jet operations were there not package flights in sixties using propeller a/c? I'm thinking kit like BMA Argonauts...