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Old 4th May 2015, 07:23
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staplefordheli
 
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I was working up by Wattisham in the 90s when the Phantoms were still operating and was sat having lunch on the perimeter near the centre line when one of the tubines let go as it climbed off the centreline into low cloud trailing fire and smoke. Chunks of the core all over the adjacent golfcourse to the side and pockets of small fires. Arrestor nets deployed and short while later , a very noisy single engine phantom came out the clouds and hit the net. The pilot was baling out before she had stopped. Nothing ever appeared in the news at the time unlike the F111 from Heyford that dumped large chucks of burning engine all over the animal feed mill car park at Bicester on approach destroying a few cars and making the red tops t the time.
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