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19th Dec 2001, 15:53

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skua

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That is a very famous Vulcan crash - caused if I remember rightly, by the staff officer on board, Harry Broadhurst? - over-ruling the captain amd forcing them into an instrument approach at LHR, when the weather was below minimums. Few survived.