Our local evening TV "News" was attempting to whip up some sort of doomsday hysteria about this incident by interviewing parents at the gate of the local primary school and....
I guess nobody had grown an oversize marrow for a kids charity recently so they hade to come up with something to fill the slot.
This was covered on the BBC six oclock news on the day it happened. And RAF and USAF representatives vivited the school nearby the day after, and the pupils have sent a get well card to the pilot!
In the mornings we would look out of the caravan window and see Phantoms from Coningsby flying really low heading out over the coast . Aah great days !!! Sadly no more .
Regards ,
Bomber.
Go on, crash your pension and buy another caravan.
A bit of thread drift, but what would our current media have made of the the Tintagel Hunter crash if it had happened now?
I was in the UK at the time and remember the SAR helicopter, fire trucks arriving from St Mawgan, a Jaguar overhead taking photos. An indication of how things were dealt with in those days was the fact that the village was not closed off while the incident was being sorted out. I got to the crash site and remember the bizarre sight of the Hunter fuselage on its side in the alleyway between two buildings and the gun pack with cannon shells lying in the road directly opposite the Shell petrol station!
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