Okay, it isn't quite taking off, but my father once landed a passenger plane backwards because the windspeed was higher than the landing speed for that aircraft. The passengers were quite amused apparently
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Rory
MkIIa, blue lit buttons, memory upgrade, 1Tb in Subaru Forester STi
MkII, 240Gb in Mark Lord dock
MkII, 80Gb SSD in dock