Death Cruiser Flight Crew
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Vaucluse, France.
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I was in the control tower at Wycombe Air Park, booking out, when the PanAm 747 had the engine failure and started jettisoning. The controller, who was a Heathrow Tower controller on a 'day off' (Denis Cliffe perhaps?) glanced to the south, uttered an exclamation and grabbed the binoculars. We then watched it as it struggled along the Thames Valley, leaving a trail of fuel, vanishing in the direction of Greenham Common, and not seeming to gain much height. After an hour or so, to allow things to calm down, whoever it was then rang Heathrow to confirm that there had been a successful outcome.