Twentieth Anniversary of Kegworth Air Crash

[shaunbhoy]

It was twenty years ago this evening that an airliner crashed on the embankment of the M1 at Kegworth.

A friend of mine was on the plane and died. He was in the RAF and was on his way back to Norn Iron to pack up his kit as he was about to be posted to Hong Kong. Poor fooker. I also seem to remember that there was a squaddie who was late for the flight and missed out in being involved in the accident. He was interviewed in a load of the papers thereafter about how lucky he had been. I seem to remember that not long after returning to NI he was subsequently killed or wounded.

[crimdon]

A friend of mine was on the plane and died. He was in the RAF and was on his way back to Norn Iron to pack up his kit as he was about to be posted to Hong Kong. Poor fooker. I also seem to remember that there was a squaddie who was late for the flight and missed out in being involved in the accident. He was interviewed in a load of the papers thereafter about how lucky he had been. I seem to remember that not long after returning to NI he was subsequently killed or wounded.

Wow just like Final Destination

[Tensai]

My mum was working on admissions in A&E at the Leicester Royal Infirmary where they brought many of the injured. It was pretty grim, but one of the hardest jobs was fending off all the journalists who were trying to get at the survivors for a story. Absolute parasites apparently.