Gatwick ‘motorway’ mistake
By
ROBIN CHARTERIS,
j in London Twoi men were so drunk: when they left a London pub that after staggering across fields they mistook a Gatwick airport: runway for the A 23 motorway. As they walked along the middle of the long, straight “road” a packed Boeing 1727 which had just landed had to brake hard to avoid hitting them.
Barry Smith, aged 27, of Ifield, Sussex, and Paul Perry, aged 34, of nearby Broadfield, were each fined £309 ($840) when they pleaded guilty to charges of endangering an aircraft and being drunk, j
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Press, 26 February 1987, Page 23
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