[QUOTE=Cornish Jack;11379238]The Co-Pilot was 'ours' and Andy Andrus and I held and comforted him while waiting for the medics.
Your experience with the door is odd. The only exit from the boom was via the freight bay 'climbing bars or through the floor hatch - two doours hinged to open inwards./QUOTE]
Indeed, I climbed up in to the boom from the freight deck and walked aft. The stepping in to space"" episode was where the two doors were opened upward revealing a straight drop to the floor below. That Beverley never actually served in squadron service in the RAF so might hav been an oddity.