justal
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| posted on 4-6-2003 at 20:40 |
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Plane Crash
You may have read elsewhere in the froums that there was some excitement here in Ynyslas at the weekend, which turned out to be a plane
crash...
Well, Some of the details are that it was a privately owned Hawker Hunter jet that went out of control over the estuary. The pilot
ejected and landed in the estuary still strapped to his ejector seat and the plane embedded itself into land not far from the railway
line. Some people on the beach paddled out to help the pilot and the rescue services, hearing that there had been a plane crash, but
without any other details went into overdrive; Borth and Aberdyfi Coastguard rescue teams were soon on the scene as was the Cambrian
Coastguard sector manager, two RAF Sea King helicopters were scambled and soon helping out along with the Borth and Aberdfyi inshore
lifeboat teams. Representatives from Machylleth, Aberystwyth and Aberaeron fire stations were called to the scene along with the
Aberdyfi and Aberystwyth ambulances, Dyfed Powys and North Wales police were in attendance too and two police helicopters!!!
Apparently it was the second time the pilot has ejected from a plane, and as the Cambrian News points out, it was alos the second time
he had survived!!!... Surely if this is the second time he's survived, it was fairly obvious that he survived the first time as well!!!
Anyway... The plane certainly did a good job of embedding itself into the ground, check this photo out.
Al.
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Joe
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| posted on 8-6-2003 at 19:52 |
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How is that for some excitement in rural live? I am very astonished about the plane burying itself the way it is seenin the picture!
Where did the wings go Al? Why did it not blow up? Al, do you have any more details?
Joe
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Dave
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| posted on 9-6-2003 at 12:37 |
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Its all there in one place. Apparently it buried itself 15 foot into the ground. It went straight up when the pilot lost control, and
then came straight down, like a dart. 
It landed on Borth Bog, so it's fairly soft land.
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