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![]() "DAN" wrote in message news ![]() Anyone knows the circumstances of this photo? Looks pretty nasty... Could it be this one ? http://www.thisislongford.com/heathrow.htm On 1st October 1956, the first Avro Vulcan bomber taken on charge by the RAF, returning from a successful flight to Australia and New Zealand, crashed on approach to Heathrow Airport (then called London Airport). The pilot and Air Marshall Broadhurst, who occupied the co-pilot's seat, both survived, ejecting after the plane had struck the ground and bounced back into the air. The 4 other occupants, including a civilian contractor, died instantly. I have provided a link to a draft statement by the Air Secretary, Nigel Birch, which can be viewed online here or at the Public Records Office at Kew. Henry J Wild, a Longford villager who moved to Canada in the 1970s, described the incident like this: I was standing in the farmyard when a very severe thunderstorm was approaching with a lot of lightning and strong wind and there was a tremendous noise and there appeared a triangular aircraft from the low clouds, it was so low it was obvious it could not reach the runway, there were two cracks then a loud bang as it crashed then silence, except for the thunder. It was The Vulcan arriving from Australia non-stop, the cracks were the ejector seats, it fell in a field of brussel sprouts about half a mile south-west of the village, just over the river. I heard afterwards that it was told not to land but an Air Vice Marshal aboard overruled the advice as he wanted to be sure to meet the air ministry welcoming party: he had also ordered the co-pilot to give him his seat so he was able to eject when the crash came, he broke his ankle. ~ Dingo |
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