Surprise jet arrival left lasting legacy in town

30 years ago today Captain Ruben Ocana’s Gulfstream II made an unexpected landing on Mallow Racecourse, Ray Ryan recalls

Surprise jet arrival left lasting legacy in town

THE ground was still damp from a slight overnight frost when Captain Ruben Ocana stepped out of the Gulfstream II executive jet he had landed a short time earlier on the five furlong straight at Mallow Racecourse.

“I will be out of here once the ground dries out,” he told me, but, of course, that was not the way it worked out.

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