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."

airsound

Thanks for the correction! Need to get a new hearing aid.....

Can you contribute something useful? No? Thought so...

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?

I am sorry if my message which was intended to convey some interesting/useful information was in a form which was so easily misinterpreted.

so the spin put on by the amb service that their pilot turned off the fuel and engines was as rubbish as we thought it was.:ugh:

I'll guess we'll wait and see.

BTW my original one-word answer to SM was rejected by the forum's software.

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.

He does. :ok:

Sepp: Thats good news, thanks.

EGCA

FYI

Air Accidents Investigation: Cessna 501 Citation, G-VUEM

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