Discorde: Regrettably, I can't comment on what happened at any subsequent investigation, but I happened to be on a flight back to Benson, passing Paris, as the BEA aircraft made its Emergency call and began its diversion. My recollection of a piece in 'Flight' reporting the incident a week or two later is that the sheered-off prop (or bits of it) also hit the top of the flight deck before disappearing into some Parisian suburb .... probably pretty much where, as Nav, I sat in the RAF version!