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Old 9th Aug 2016, 11:01
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ACW342
 
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I remember the Queens Silver Jubilee for totally the wrong reason. I was on duty in Lossie ops on this occasion with, unusually, a television in the ops room for the staff to watch the "do" at FY. It was switched off in a hurry when we started to get information that a Jag had crashed and was it possibly one of ours? Lots of phoning round, information gathered and passed upward. Unfortunately it was one of our aircraft and, sadly, the pilot didn't get out. I often wonder if HM was ever told that one of her military subjects had died whilst she was celebrating her jubilee.
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