Another Memory Lapse...

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Probably one for the older members of the community but I've been wracking my brains trying to remember the title/series of a TV episode I saw in the late 70's, possibly early 80's.

Definitely British, it told the story of a former RAF pilot now a commercial airline captain. He had some sort of issue (haunting?) with his old abandoned wartime airbase which at the end of the episode, he landed his airliner there rather than the correct airport, resulting in a fatal crash.

I was convinced it was an episode from Tales Of The Unexpected but nothing listed on Wikipedia matches the plot.

It's not the Twilight Zone or Spielberg's Amazing Stories. It's not "The Survivor", the movie based on the James Herbert book which was moved to Australia and the crash was at the beginning. It's not Sole Survivor or its elusive predecessor about the ghost airmen in the desert.

Any ideas, gang?
 
Some useful suggestions there but not sure it's any of them!

It was definitely a standalone episode or TV play, not part of an ongoing story arc. Definitely not Sapphire & Steel as I would remember that. I'll run through the Outer Limits but again IIRC this was a US show and this was very muh a British episode.

The only thing I can think it was a BBC or ITV TV "play" in which case looking for a needle in a haystack as I'm not aware of any comprehensive list of these made over the years.

Thanks anyway!
 
I thought I had it for a moment with the 1981 movie 'The Survivor' starring Robert Powell and Jenny Agutter.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083144/


The write up doesn't mention an airbase and I cant really remember much about it but I thought I'd mention it in case it was relevant as it was what your description made me think about:)
 
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