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Old 23rd November 2008 | 13:52
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ShyTorque

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We've all heard of people who've been badly hurt in a failed turn-back attempt. I've never heard of the equivalent in a land-ahead - though maybe I've not been listening hard enough.
If you'd been listening in 1977 you might have remembered the RN EFTS Bulldog in that force landed on the north Yorkshire moors following engine failure during a navex. I flew over it shortly afterwards in a Jet Provost. The aircraft looked intact but the occupants, a QFI and his student, were both killed.

October 1992. I lost a very close friend at Queen's UAS, NI (he was the squadron boss and very experienced on type). Failed engine in his Bulldog, landed out in a farmer's field. Killed outright on impact with a stone wall hidden inside a hedge. Female student very seriously injured.
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