registration: G-BAEF) hit the localiser antenna of Luton Airport's Instrument Landing System while taking off on a charter flight to Corfu, rendering the system inoperative. The aircraft diverted to London Gatwick where it landed safely. On 30 September 1988, while completing the repair and run-up of the faulty engine that had caused a rejected takeoff due to an engine oil warning at Berlin Tegel, Dan-Air Boeing 727-217Adv. G-BKAG collided with a jetway at the airport's terminal building while maintenance engineers taxied the aircraft back to its stand. This badly injured the ground crew member manning the jetway and ruptured the fully refuelled aircraft's centre wing tank at the left wing root. As a result, a large quantity of jet fuel spilled onto the tarmac. The maintenance engineers' failure to pressurise the aircraft's hydraulics had resulted in a complete loss of hydraulic pressure just before reaching the stand, making it impossible to steer the aircraft and rendering the brakes ineffective. On 2 March 1989, a Dan Air HS 748 mistakenly landed at Langford Lodge Airport instead of the nearby Belfast Aldergrove Airport, the intended destination of the scheduled service from Newcastle. When the aircraft broke cloud over Lough Neagh on short finals for Aldergrove's runway 07, the pilot in command thought what he had spotted was the correct runway and proceeded to land the plane at what turned out to be the adjacent, privately owned, Langford Lodge airfield, just under a mile short of the approach to runway 07 at Aldergrove. Notes References (Airliner World online) (Aviation News online) Further reading (Kelsey Publishing Group online) (Key Publishing Online Shop (Online Catalogue > Magazines > Special Magazines > Airliner Classics 3) ) External links Dan Air Remembered The official Dan Air Staff Association website Home of the BAC 1–11 on the Web Dan-Air Boeing 707-321 G-AYSL on the ramp at Berlin Tegel on Christmas Day 1971. The aircraft's colour scheme was the airline's second livery (the first to be applied uniformly, fleet-wide). Dan-Air de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C G-AYWX about to touch down at Manchester Ringway during August 1972. The aircraft's colour scheme was one of several variations of the airline's original livery. Dan-Air Hawker Siddeley 748 Series 1A/200 G-ARAY parked in front of the passenger terminal at Newcastle Woolsington during 1973. The aircraft's colour scheme was the interim, hybrid Dan-Air Skyways livery (exclusively applied to ex-Skyways HS 748s). Dan-Air BAC One-Eleven