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Old 7th Feb 2009, 11:55
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Cornish Jack
 
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Missed you by a day!! Did some 'wets' with Herbie Marshall on the 9th and similar with Sandy Sanders on the 16th. With that number of days between shifts, I must have been on leave.
Going through that logbook, I see that I had been posted to Thorney on 8th June to replace a winchman killed in a crash there a couple of days before. First flight there was in 351, to the crash site, to recover bits and pieces - not the nicest introduction.
Re. the crash, we (that is the Thorney Flight) were called in for a talk, by the then Squadron CO, about the responsibilities of monitoring (and, if necessary, reporting,) colleague's operating behaviour. Stuck with me ever since - collecting your predecessor's blood-stained clothing does concentrate the mind in that area!
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