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Old 30th Nov 2007, 09:21
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Mungo Man
 
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The pictures remind me of pics of the Trident crash just out of Heathrow in the 70s where the aircraft stalled and landed flat in a field with little forward velocity. There was no fire, the airframe was largely intact, though distorted, and all on board died. Most died quickly but one or two were removed alive by rescuers only to later succumb. A relatively unusual type of crash. Always stikes fear in me that one as my parents drove round the roundabout in Staines seconds before it crashed there. They heard a big bang and thought it was a gas explosion or something only realising later when they heard the news.
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