Nigel Berry, from the Bring Annie Home project, said his dad had the “crazy idea to bring Annie home after 83 years”.
“I didn’t think it would happen, I thought it was a wild dream, and I got a phone call one day saying, ‘she’s coming home and the captain had agreed’.”
He said it had involved nine months of planning, but the moment he saw the plane over the airport it felt “absolutely brilliant”.
“Nine months of planning, hard work. It’s been a long, long, long nine months.”
He said his wife, Claire, who died earlier this week, was a large part of the campaign and “would have loved it”.
“She did probably 90% of all of this for us, so yeah, this is for her,” he said.