BHX closed due accident
Have just talked to Midlands Today, and it seems it's an 'Inside Out' programme (on BBC 1 West Mids - Sky chan 979, don't know the other channel numbers, sorry) - but that's next Monday 6 Dec, not tonight.
Thanks for the heads-up, though, O&H.
Edited to add - it's described as
"A special film on the Birmingham aircrash: from the brave efforts to save a donated liver from the plane's wreckage to the organ transplant that saved a patient's life."
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Thanks for the heads-up, though, O&H.
Edited to add - it's described as
"A special film on the Birmingham aircrash: from the brave efforts to save a donated liver from the plane's wreckage to the organ transplant that saved a patient's life."
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Very disappointed with a lot of the comments on this thread, so much for professionalism.
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In a publicity puff for tonight's programme, it is revealed that one of the BHX's fire crew went into the cockpit to extricate the pilot. Then whilst he was being airlifted to hospital, the organ was retrieved from the aircraft.
What? The fire crew went in an air ambulance?
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The Midlands Today "Inside Out" piece was centered around an interview with the airport fireman who went into the aircraft and dragged the more seriously injured crew member out.
No mention of the alleged situation where the air ambulance pilot was reported as entering the aircraft to turn off the fuel and electrics. ( would he do that, and risk prejudicing the air ambulance flight if he got into difficulties entering the crashed aircraft?)
Slightly amusing interview with the witness from the golf course who said the jet was travelling at " several hundred miles an hour" as it came down, but apart from that and the now usual short duration shots and swivelly blurry camera-work that production people fail to realise makes for quite unpleasant viewing, we learned little about the accident, and there was no new footage.
The liver transplant was thankfully successful.
No news about the pilot, lets hope he continues to recover from his injuries.
No mention of the alleged situation where the air ambulance pilot was reported as entering the aircraft to turn off the fuel and electrics. ( would he do that, and risk prejudicing the air ambulance flight if he got into difficulties entering the crashed aircraft?)
Slightly amusing interview with the witness from the golf course who said the jet was travelling at " several hundred miles an hour" as it came down, but apart from that and the now usual short duration shots and swivelly blurry camera-work that production people fail to realise makes for quite unpleasant viewing, we learned little about the accident, and there was no new footage.
The liver transplant was thankfully successful.
No news about the pilot, lets hope he continues to recover from his injuries.
He does. 
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Story about the woman who received the liver in the Wail:
Kate Trevener meets hero fireman Nick Jordan who rescued her donor liver from a plane crash | Mail Online
Kate Trevener meets hero fireman Nick Jordan who rescued her donor liver from a plane crash | Mail Online
