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Old 17th Mar 2009, 10:54
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Originally Posted by KeepItTidy
"At the same time it has to be remembered that the loss of XV230 represents the greatest single loss of life to UKAF since the Second World War"
Not sure of the context of the quote and not to denignate the tragic loss of life in the Nimrod crash this quote is quite wrong. In 1965 a Hastings crashed at Abingdon with the loss of 41 lives.
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