RAF Near-Miss: Maps Had Airfield In Wrong Place

Investigators looking into a near-miss involving an RAF Tornado jet found that an airfield where a microlight pilot was about to land was marked in the wrong place on military maps. The low-flying Tornado barely missed the microlight, which was coming into land at Headon airfield in Nottinghamshire, said the report by Airprox, which investigates such incidents. It said that if the airfield was marked correctly on the map, the tornado pilot's planned route would have taken him clear of the a