Jetset Sparky, thank you for your detailed posting which I have acknowledged by editing, by addition my additional post. Any time is a long time to watch an aircraft on fire and obviously time passed slowly for me at the time of the accident. I have no regrets about my original posting and did indeed use upper case for the reasons you surmised. As an aside there is seperate thread running about the time it took Birmingham to re-open and perhaps that too, requires a better informed person than myself to respond.