It was a holiday flight from Mallorca which overran the runway in wet conditions while trying to land and ended up in a wedged in an embankment. These photos, plucked from the YEP archive turn back the clock to that day in May 1985. READ MORE: 39 unseen photos of Leeds Bradford Airport from the 1980s | 26 photos to take you back to Leeds in 1985 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
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The plane was a Lockheed TriStar, registration G-BBAI, operated by British Airtours - then a subsidiary of British Airways. It was bringing 398 passengers and 14 crew back from Palma on a charter during the ill-fated flight on Monday, May 27, 1985.
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The aircraft over-ran the runway, which was wet from a recent rain shower, and came to a stop in a sloping field just beyond the boundary of the airfield. An evacuation was ordered, and all on board escaped with only minor injuries.
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The plane was extensively damaged - the nose landing gear folded backwards, damaging the underside of the fuselage, and the undersides of both wing-mounted engines were flattened.
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The wheels had dug deep troughs into the ground, damaging the airfield's lighting cables that were buried under the surface.
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An accident report concluded that the over-run was caused by the inability of the aircraft to achieve the appropriate level of braking effectiveness due to restricted thrust reverse options.
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The report also recommended that both the wet runway performance of the TriStar and the condition of the surface of runway 14 at Leeds Bradford Airport should be re-examined.