Originally Posted by
The Old Fat One
Just about any Nimrod crew that could get to her transit lane during their routine training exercises, would have had a pop. I can't remember if she deployed straight down the channel from Germany, or circumnavigated the UK first, but that's a 120 (Kinloss based) photo although of course they might have been deployed to St Mawgan at the time. I was based in Ops Support at St Mawgan at the time, so I would have distributed all the photos onwards to various agencies. I remember it fairly well, but I don't think I can add anything to what you already know. It would have been widely reported in the papers at the time. RIP your fallen comrades.
Yes, either crew 3 or crew 6 from Kinloss took the picture. Regards!