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This programme contains scenes which
some viewers may find upsetting

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This was the ill-fated
British Midland plane

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several hours before the disaster,

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landing safely at Heathrow on its
routine shuttle run from Belfast.

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Yes. Nonsmoking window.

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The flight that I was booked on
was for 6.30.

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I got to the gate
probably 30 seconds after 6.30.

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OK. Missed the flight.
They wouldn't let me on.

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The gate people said that

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I could take the next
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So it was fine. Wasn't going to be
delayed as much. OK.

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Hello. Departures.

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Gate six. Thank you. Bye.

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Went back over to London
about three or four times.

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Sonia would have spent
quite a bit in Oxford Street,

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Have lunch, go to a show.

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We went there to enjoy ourselves,
and we certainly did.

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Can I have the attention of all
passengers travelling to Belfast?

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Can they please come down
to gate 49?

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My father was in the RAF
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so I was perfectly happy
getting on a plane.

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Myself and my business partner,

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we had a successful trip
at the London Boat Show,

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met a few new suppliers,
and then we just had to fly home.

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833, thank you.
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When he's left,
then push is approved.

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That wasn't the plane that we were
originally going to travel on.

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We had been to meet friends
in Wales...

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..so we rescheduled our flight
back home.

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have been on that plane...

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..but we had changed it,
and that was it.

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Mm-hm. That was it, yeah.
We were on it.

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INDISTINCT PA ANNOUNCEMENT

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The terrible tragedy of Lockerbie
had just happened.

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that it had been a terrorist attack.

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NEWSREEL: Pan American Flight 103
had more than 250 people on board.

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It came down on the village
of Lockerbie in Dumfriesshire.

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I was in Belfast.
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and it had actually come up
on the screen about Lockerbie.

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I remember looking at it.
It was unbelievable.

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I remember saying
to one of my friends,

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"My goodness, look at that!
We're flying out in January."

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what was going to happen.

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It never crossed my mind.
It doesn't.

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The anti-terrorist measures
enforced at Heathrow Airport

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are acknowledged to be
among the tightest in the world.

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Armed police regularly patrol
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We were so used to having security.

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Second nature, wouldn't it be?

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With us seeing soldiers and police
armed and things like that,

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which you would never see
in England,

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because they don't have soldiers
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But in Ulster,
it was an everyday occurrence,

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getting stopped and checked.

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We walk down the jetway,
we get onto the plane.

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It actually smelt new.
It was a brand-new aircraft.

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I think it had only been flying
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so it just had a, you know,
a nice, new smell.

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I was sitting in the front row and,
you know, everything seemed fine.

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It was great.

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I was flying home to see my wife
and my daughter,

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who was about ten months old
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We were sitting two seats
from the front.

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I sat at the window
so I could look out.

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Eamon always let me have
the window seat, keep me happy.

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We were at the rear of the aircraft.

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The cabin crew come around
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I thought to myself,
"This is great,"

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because I said, "Right, I'll have
my meal, have my glass of wine,

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"and then whenever they come back,

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"I'll maybe have a little whiskey
just to finish it off."

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My father was a pilot
with Aer Lingus.

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In 1989, he would have been
Aer Lingus' chief pilot.

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He had flown all the models of 737
up to that point.

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I would have known that it was
the Boeing 737 400 series.

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"Oh, it's one of the new ones!

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"That's interesting.
Let's see what that's like."

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NEWSREEL: The Boeing 737 is the
world's best-selling airliner.

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It has a record of safety
and reliability.

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just banging vibration.

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There was an explosion.

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That's all I can say.

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There appeared to be an explosion.

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To me, it sounded like
somebody was outside

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with a hammer trying to get inside.

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There's a loud bang comes from
the left-hand side, and I glance out,

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and what I see is
showers of sparks coming out

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from the back end of the engine
on that side.

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The plane was shaking.

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It was vibrating.

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..and I could see the engine,
and it was like an oval flame.

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It was the flames
that was the terrifying bit.

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Absolutely terrifying.

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The shuddering...

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..got worse.

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Horrendous. Scary.

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You think, "My God, I'm up here.
There's no getting off." Hmm.

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Eamon took my hand and said,

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"You know, we'll be fine, darling.
Nothing will happen."

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Which was a big lie!

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I was petrified.

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the engine,

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and then it just suddenly stopped...

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..as if somebody had
flicked a switch,

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and the plane seemed to stabilise.

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Whatever they did in the cockpit,
the shuddering stopped.

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and he said that there had been
a fault with the right-hand engine,

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that everything was under control,

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and that we were going to divert
to East Midlands,

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and we'd all continue our journey
from there.

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but I wasn't overly concerned

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because I knew an aircraft could fly
on one engine.

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I wouldn't say I was happy about it,
but I knew we should be OK.

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We thought, "Well, maybe that's
the end of it."

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"I hope somebody put all the uniforms
in the washing machine!" Yep.

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"Have to get this ready
for the children,"

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and trying to make it
as normal as possible,

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and about what we WERE going to
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Alls we were thinking about
was get this plane down,

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get it landed, get it on the ground.

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You could feel the manoeuvres
and you begin to hear

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the control surfaces being deployed
and that sort of thing.

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The ground was getting closer.

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There was another almighty explosion
from the engine.

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Only this time, it was worse because
there was bits of the engine

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hitting the fuselage
close to where we were sitting.

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I couldn't actually see

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the person who was
sitting beside me.

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The noise stopped...

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..and then there was just
complete and utter silence.

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The plane was coming down
without any engines.

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catastrophically wrong.

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All I could hear was
what sounded to me like wind

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whistling past the aircraft as the
aircraft flew through the air.

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I was looking out,
and then I could see the lights.

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we were definitely going to crash.

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The next thing is the pilot

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giving us the instructions
for brace positions.

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These were commands that
you only seen in television.

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No-one in their right mind
ever thinks

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No-one.

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We're going to crash.

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The plane is going to crush.

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We were at the station
at Loughborough...

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..and we got the call at 8.15, 8.20.

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So we made our way to the airport,

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and we'd just arrived
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We were approaching Kegworth
on the M1

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and there, very, very clear
in the air just above the village,

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was an airliner coming in.

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And as we watched,
the port engine exploded.

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And then it started to turn,

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until in the end it disappeared

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behind a forest of trees
ahead of us.

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An airliner with 118 passengers
on board

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has crashed on the M1 motorway
in Leicestershire.

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It came down near junction 24
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just short of the
East Midlands Airport.

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Immediately, the airport crew
shot off in their appliances,

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and we followed them.

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NEWSREEL: The Boeing 737 almost made
it to the East Midlands Airport

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course after a fire in one engine,

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the pilot hoped to reach safety
on the remaining one.

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We didn't really know what it was.

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It looked like a plume of smoke.

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It could have been a load of dust.

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I said, "Oh, it looks like smoke.
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which we did on the M1 bridge, and I
got out of the car to look over.

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It was only then that
I actually looked to the side

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and saw the plane on the side of
the M1 on the embankment.

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So that was really when
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that what had happened,
and people were inside the plane.

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..at this stage, we're trying to
get the aircraft over

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so we can get a passenger list.

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It looks like zero Bravo
with an Echo on the end.

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Myself and Rob Dawson got to
the bottom of the aircraft

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and was looking up at the wreckage.

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Its tail was hanging in the trees
above that, split completely off,

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and the whole back section
of the aircraft

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above the aeroplane.

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I remember coming to
in the wreckage,

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and the first thing I thought was,

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"There's going to be a fire.
I've got to get out."

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You could see all the people...

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..bent over...

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I remember touching the side
of the cabin...

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..wall, and it actually being hot.

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And then I thought about fire.

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The whole embankment
was like a flood.

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And I turned round to Rob
and I said,

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this water coming from?"

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And he said, "It isn't water.

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"Can't you smell it?
It's aviation fuel."

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I was just dangling in mid-air.

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The next thing, when you got
a few of your senses back again,

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I couldn't move.

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Smelling fuel, knowing that
the engine had been on fire...

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..that was equally as scary as being
up there at 4,000ft, 5,000ft.

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Yeah.

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remained intact, and firemen sprayed
them with foam and drained hundreds

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of gallons of fuel from them as
the long night of rescue work began.

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Locals, fearing another Lockerbie,
rushed to the scene.

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Their offers of help were readily
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There were so many people
running to the site to help.

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The people didn't know
whether there was anybody alive.

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Were they badly injured
or were they walking wounded?

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Villagers are very sad and very
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and the people that are injured.

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I noticed, where the wing was,

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there was a doorway
that had been opened.

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I went towards that.

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It was pitch-black inside.

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And there was a passenger,
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Made me jump, really.

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And I said, "Are you all right?"

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And he says, "Yeah."

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And it was quiet.

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There was no cries or anything.

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I said, "Is it empty?"

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He said, "No. They're all trapped."

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a few people shouting out,

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but not massively.
It was so strange.

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My feet were trapped.

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I remember pushing the seat in front,
and my ankles...

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..started sliding out, and I could
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And Eamon eventually made his way
up beside me...

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..and he tried to help me
by ripping his shirt,

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because he was going to
tie my ankles off.

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But he couldn't do it
because his arm...

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Rob got himself next to
the shell of the aeroplane,

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which had cracked
just behind the wing.

245
00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,200
I was on the other side of him,

246
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,520
hanging on to one tree
with my left hand.

247
00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:45,960
And that's how it was from about
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248
00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,600
..that I was holding on to
that tree with one hand

249
00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,880
and lifting people down
with my other hand, between us.

250
00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:09,720
The ambulance men got up.

251
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,320
We started passing the people out of
the aircraft as best we could.

252
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,560
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how many people came out alive

253
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,160
on that back section
behind us there. Just unbelievable.

254
00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:24,040
NEWSREEL: More than 30 ambulances
queued up along the M1,

255
00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,400
waiting to take the injured
to nearby hospitals.

256
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,080
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257
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,760
..I don't know how.

258
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,920
I knew I'd broken my leg,
because I could actually feel it.

259
00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:48,720
I was definitely in pain
by the side of the road.

260
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,160
There are blue lights
and red lights and...

261
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,320
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262
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,640
SIRENS WAIL

263
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,680
Ambulances started appearing
at the AandE department

264
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:15,560
with people who had been
taken off the plane badly injured.

265
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:20,480
NEWSREEL: Many of the victims

266
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,360
suffered broken bones
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267
00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:27,320
By the time the fourth ambulance
delivered its case,

268
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,560
we knew that this was
a major incident.

269
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,760
NEWSREEL: RAF rescue helicopter
pilots lowered their machines

270
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,080
carefully onto the road,

271
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,400
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only feet from the motorway lights.

272
00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:08,200
The fuselage had broken up,
so the floor panels were crumpled.

273
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,200
So everybody that was
still on that aeroplane,

274
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:13,800
they were all trapped.

275
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,600
I could feel something
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276
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,280
and the arm was bent over
at a right angle.

277
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,520
And I remember touching, just...

278
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,560
And I says,
"I think my arm is broke."

279
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,640
NEWSREEL: Deep inside
the shattered fuselage,

280
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,160
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through to those remaining.

281
00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:52,000
One of the rescuers actually
crawled into the aircraft,

282
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,560
and he was able to get my legs

283
00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:01,800
and slowly pull me out.

284
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,160
Those people that were with us,

285
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,880
they were ours.
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286
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,200
And we were talking to them.

287
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,680
Anything to try and
take your mind off it.

288
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,760
I mean, it's ridiculous, really,
but that's what we tried.

289
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,640
They took me out of the ambulance,
and I remember

290
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,160
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on my back, facing the ceiling.

291
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,000
And these plastic doors open,

292
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,360
and suddenly I'm inside

293
00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:39,360
with the doctors and nurses
on either side.

294
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,800
I remember just that emotion of,

295
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,520
once the hospital doors opened,

296
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,600
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It was incredible.

297
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,800
I just thought, "Oh, you know,
I've made it. I'm OK. I'm safe."

298
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,760
Well, I thought,
just before we hit the deck,

299
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,560
you know, I thought,
"This is it. We've had it."

300
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,240
I mean, the thought
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301
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,440
there's not too many people
survive an air crash.

302
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,680
So I guess I'm pretty lucky.

303
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,600
You know? It's...

304
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,560
It's a strange experience.

305
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,240
My ankle bones were severed...

306
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,480
..one of my heel bones was smashed,

307
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:35,960
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308
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,240
The doctor said to me my feet were
like a bag of crisps, broken crisps.

309
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:43,840
It was very painful.

310
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,520
NEWSREEL: Throughout the night
at Belfast International Airport,

311
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,800
relatives and friends of passengers
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312
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,720
from Heathrow to Belfast
waited anxiously for news.

313
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,920
My father-in-law
come up to the airport

314
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:12,240
along with my 18-month-old son
for to pick us up from the flight.

315
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,920
NEWSREEL: Some complained that
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316
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,040
in coming through.

317
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,320
Senior British Midland executives
were sent to speak to them.

318
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,040
They took him down this corridor,

319
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:29,560
and that's whenever he was told
that the plane had crashed...

320
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,560
..which must have been horrific.

321
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,400
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and who hadn't survived.

322
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,120
NEWSREEL: A fire chief said
the last survivor was recovered

323
00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:53,400
from the wreckage at 3.30
this morning.

324
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,680
The last body was removed
an hour later.

325
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,600
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326
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,160
and one infant

327
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,320
on board the aircraft,

328
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,880
we believed that 44 are dead...

329
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,560
..and 73 and the infant
have survived.

330
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,720
The eight crew members on board
the aircraft have all survived.

331
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,640
We got on the minibus
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332
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,200
It was just silence.

333
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:44,480
But the worst of it was
when I finally got home...

334
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:45,880
..at my house...

335
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,040
..and I walked in,

336
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,240
and my wife and my two little girls

337
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:56,000
were sat watching television
with the air crash

338
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,680
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339
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,320
and they were watching it
as I walked through the door.

340
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,080
And it's then that it hit me...

341
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,440
..and I had to go
into the toilet and...

342
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,560
..sit down and have a...
to be honest, I had a good cry.

343
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:15,800
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344
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,600
Because, you know,
it really got to us then,

345
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,040
what we'd... what we'd done.

346
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,480
NEWSREEL: Tonight, the wreck lies
silently beside the motorway.

347
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,920
The rescuers have gone.
Their job is finished.

348
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,280
<font color="
are just beginning theirs.

349
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,920
NEWSREEL: Daylight revealed a deep
furrow in a field

350
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,840
above the motorway,
the spot where the descending Boeing

351
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,920
first touched the ground
with its tail,

352
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,320
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cutting beyond

353
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,960
and losing any chance of
reaching the airport.

354
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,600
NEWSREEL: The pilot who survived
will be a crucial eyewitness.

355
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,920
He's been praised for successfully
negotiating his crippled aircraft

356
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,240
<font color="
in the village of Kegworth.

357
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,280
There's always a pressure
to try to come up with an answer

358
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,840
as an investigator.

359
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,680
The aircraft nearly made it
to the runway,

360
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,840
but had clearly run out of energy.

361
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,280
Therefore, you're thinking
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362
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,200
maybe there is
an engine problem of some sort.

363
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,320
Certainly,
in comparison with Lockerbie,

364
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,080
the thing we could really rule out

365
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,960
was actually some sort of sabotage
or improvised explosive.

366
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,560
<font color="
the police carried out

367
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,360
an inch-by-inch search
of the motorway this morning.

368
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,600
It's thought the aircraft
initially came down in a field

369
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,080
and bounced on
the M1's central reservation

370
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,400
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on the muddy embankment.

371
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,400
The Kegworth accident happened

372
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,800
less than three weeks after
the bombing at Lockerbie.

373
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,080
And the investigation teams
were very hard stretched

374
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,640
to deal with
two very significant accidents

375
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,200
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376
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,600
The investigators, particularly
with the new aircraft type,

377
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,160
all eyes were on them.

378
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,360
They would have felt
a huge amount of pressure

379
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,160
to find the right answer,

380
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,960
but also that pressure
to try and find a rapid answer.

381
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,240
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382
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:05,680
We simply cannot.

383
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,200
It's not for us
at this stage to say,

384
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,000
but I've just spoken to
three inspectors over there.

385
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,520
They obviously want
to get at the engines,

386
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,760
and they will know a lot more
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387
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,600
REPORTER: Have you been told
a possible cause, Mrs Thatcher?

388
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:26,400
NEWSREEL: The investigation is
focusing on the 737's last minutes,

389
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,680
when the second engine failed.

390
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,080
At that point, what should have been
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391
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:33,480
became a tragedy.

392
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,640
Initial speculation
included the fact that

393
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,960
it was possible that both engines
had failed on this aircraft.

394
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,200
It seems that
British Midland Flight 092

395
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,560
was brought down by the failure
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396
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,600
British Midland have taken
their other 737-400

397
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,280
out of service for the time being,

398
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,080
and Dan-Air and AirUK,

399
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,560
which each have one,
have done likewise.

400
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,200
The probability of actually having
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401
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:18,200
on the same flight is statistically
almost insignificant. It is tiny.

402
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:24,160
NEWSREEL: The odds of both failing
may be millions to one against,

403
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,920
but it's still the starting point
for the inquiry.

404
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,080
On the evening of
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405
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,760
..I was invited to go up
in a police helicopter.

406
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,440
I suggested that what we would
want to do is take photographs

407
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:54,040
from roughly where the aircraft
should have been on the glide path.

408
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,520
<font color="
engine had delivered its power

409
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,520
for just another 30 seconds, it
would have reached the

410
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,040
runway threshold at the end of
its string of approach lights,

411
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,960
half a mile beyond the motorway.

412
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,200
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413
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,200
it's still travelling at
quite a high speed.

414
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:19,720
Most of the damage was done

415
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,000
when the aircraft hit the embankment
at the far side of the M1.

416
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,560
And at that point,

417
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:33,160
people may have experienced
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418
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,840
Now, that's the equivalent of

419
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,200
22 times the normal force
of gravity.

420
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,960
So if you imagine the weight of
a body multiplied by 22 times,

421
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,720
then that is the weight that's being
thrown against the seat in front...

422
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,800
<font color="
that the injuries were so severe.

423
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,360
They tried their best.

424
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,760
We just had to keep going down
to surgery every day

425
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:20,080
and they did a bit more work,
and they did a bit more work.

426
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,600
So you were coming up and then you
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427
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,560
and...the pain would just hit you.

428
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,960
I had a damaged retina on my eye...

429
00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:37,840
..a fractured shoulder,

430
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:42,160
a compound fracture of the left arm,

431
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:46,400
ligament damage,
and damage to both my knees.

432
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,360
<font color="
in Nottingham,

433
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,080
some survivors were visited today
by the Prince of Wales.

434
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,440
We had a visit by Prince Charles.

435
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,960
The Prince also talked to
David and Sonia Seaton from Bangor,

436
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,360
travelling home from
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437
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,240
He very kindly asked how I was,

438
00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:12,800
and he says,
"Sonia, after the crash,

439
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,280
"What was the first thing
David said to you?"

440
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,080
For a while,
the first few minutes,

441
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,600
David didn't speak,
<font color="

442
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,720
But I sort of kept shaking him

443
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:26,080
and talking to him,
and he kept conscious. But...

444
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,600
He finally said something?

445
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,720
Oh, yes, he did.

446
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,720
BOTH LAUGH

447
00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:31,760
"Get off my leg!"

448
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,240
So, you know,

449
00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:38,800
<font color="
"Get off my leg!"

450
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,040
Brian, who was my best man
at my wedding,

451
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,600
he got into his car
and drove up from London,

452
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,280
and so he appeared
at 2.00 in the morning,

453
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:58,200
stayed with me all night,
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454
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,040
Felt good. Yeah.

455
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,120
Felt good.

456
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,080
Yes.

457
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:05,280
Yeah.

458
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,920
Yeah, it was... It was important.

459
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,360
My parents actually flew over
on the Monday.

460
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,120
The chaplain in the hospital
had called them.

461
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,320
<font color="
you began to learn the severity.

462
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,720
I hadn't seen a photograph
at that point, so...

463
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:34,960
There were no newspaper photographs
so you could see what was going on.

464
00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:47,680
Nobody was really telling you about

465
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,920
the overall severity,
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466
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,160
really until the next day.

467
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,280
About, you know, the number of...

468
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,600
..unfortunate fatalities
on the night, and in fact,

469
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,080
fatalities kept going for
the first week, you know, people...

470
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:06,880
..erm...

471
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:09,880
WHISPERS: Sorry.

472
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,520
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473
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,120
Do you want to take a break?

474
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,120
Maybe a minute.
Yeah, yeah.

475
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,600
These things just sneak up on you
and ambush you.

476
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,480
NEWSREEL: The grief caused
by last Sunday's tragedy

477
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,000
<font color="
for the families of the victims.

478
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,200
In his homily,
Father Anthony O'Connor said

479
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,240
they were united by a chain
of sadness and heartbreak

480
00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:53,160
with those families and communities
throughout Northern Ireland,

481
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,640
<font color="
and continents

482
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,400
who had also suffered in the crash.

483
00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:03,680
NEWSREEL: Today's service
was conducted

484
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,400
by the Reverend Trevor Williams.

485
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,040
He strongly criticised those

486
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:11,040
who'd tried to find a scapegoat
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487
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,520
REV WILLIAMS: It's all too easy
to lash out,

488
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:20,040
as some have done, to try and answer
the question, "Why?"

489
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,720
by pointing the finger of blame,

490
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:25,960
to find, as it were, a target
for our anger...

491
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,640
<font color="
of what happened

492
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,640
have yet to be revealed.

493
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,040
NEWSREEL: With some 400 planes still
in service using similar engines

494
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,680
as the crashed
British Midland Boeing,

495
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,000
accident investigators are working
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496
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,280
of Sunday night's crash.

497
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000
In the days following an accident,

498
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,280
investigators have
to remain incredibly open-minded,

499
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,880
because they will find information
comes from many sources

500
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,880
and seems to be contradictory.

501
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,360
<font color="
that went on here

502
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,160
in the cockpit are now being
analysed from recordings

503
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,960
in the Boeing's black box
flight recorder,

504
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,200
which is already in Farnborough.

505
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:24,760
Investigators appear uncertain about
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506
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,400
which suffered a complete
loss of power.

507
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,080
There is still confusion

508
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,080
over the sequence of events which
finally led the plane to crash.

509
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,000
We were very interested,

510
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,040
particularly in
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511
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,760
It was very apparent that the
right-hand engine looked undamaged,

512
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:52,000
but the left engine was much more
damaged, and that got us puzzling.

513
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,360
At the point they were able
to interview the flight crew,

514
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,880
they will have had one version
<font color="

515
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:02,000
the point they looked at the digital
flight data recorder,

516
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,440
and also listened to
the cockpit voice recorder,

517
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,200
they could start to build a picture,

518
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,680
which in this case
started to conflict with

519
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:12,160
some of the information
<font color="

520
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,720
It was coming in that the witnesses,

521
00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:23,080
particularly on the left-hand side
of the aircraft, had seen sparks,

522
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:29,560
flames, coming from the left engine,

523
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:35,520
and this immediately started
to ring some alarm bells.

524
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:44,480
There was an inconsistency
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525
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:48,280
And joining me now from the scene
of the crash is Ed Trimble,

526
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,480
a member of the team investigating
the cause of the accident.

527
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,800
Well, Mr Trimble,
there has been some confusion.

528
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,680
Can we try and clear it up
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529
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,920
First of all, when we talk about the
engine on the left side,

530
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,440
what happened to it?

531
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:04,240
So we can see signs
of fire damage on the left engine.

532
00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:07,240
Now, what about the other engine?
The engine on the right-hand side.

533
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:09,080
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534
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:13,760
It...looks as though it's in
a zero thrust condition,

535
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,280
consistent with shutdown before
the aircraft crashed.

536
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:18,680
That must have been there

537
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,080
for the engine that failed
just before the plane

538
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,600
<font color="

539
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,400
No.

540
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,240
So when was THAT shut down?

541
00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:31,160
It was shut down at a previous point
in the flight.

542
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,400
What are the possibilities?
Why would that engine stop?

543
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,720
We have no evidence at the moment

544
00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:41,760
of a mechanical failure
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545
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:47,760
So are you suggesting
that it could be a human error?

546
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,760
At this stage of the investigation,

547
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,440
all possibilities are open
in that regard.

548
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,000
And we really will be, erm,

549
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:59,040
little forward until we do a strip
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550
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,720
Are there any signs of fire
on the right-hand engine?

551
00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:06,040
No. It was... But you're convinced
that it wasn't operating,

552
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,240
erm, towards the end of the flight?

553
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:10,800
That engine was shut down
before the aircraft crashed.

554
00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:21,360
<font color="
Eddie Trimble,

555
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,200
realised quite early on that,
in fact,

556
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:28,800
the right-hand engine had been shut
down prior to the aircraft landing.

557
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,640
And when he shared that
on the One O'Clock News,

558
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,120
that changed the story
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559
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,160
and there was a very strong reaction
against that.

560
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,880
NEWSREEL: The pilot, whose back
and legs were broken in the crash,

561
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,240
gave evidence to investigators
today,

562
00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:48,360
as some newspapers suggested
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563
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,280
Captain Kevin Hunt spent
half an hour this morning

564
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,680
with aviation accident
investigators.

565
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,360
He hasn't seen some of
today's newspaper speculation

566
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,760
about the cause of Sunday night's
crash,

567
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,640
<font color="
to radio

568
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,120
or watching television news
bulletins.

569
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,240
If it emerges that the starboard
engine was completely safe,

570
00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:12,640
how could an experienced pilot
have shut down the wrong engine?

571
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:20,680
The speculation,
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572
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,720
Was it the engines?
Can we blame the engines?

573
00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:26,040
Was the pilot?
Can we blame the pilot?

574
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:29,400
Was it...anything else?

575
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,200
I mean, here's this man,
25 years flying,

576
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,600
wakes up one morning,
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577
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,960
has this terrible accident
that occurs,

578
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,160
does his best, and then is found
to be a hero in the morning

579
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,680
and now a villain at night. And I
think that's rather tragic,

580
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,800
the way we deal with
these personalities

581
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,920
<font color="
a proper examination of the facts.

582
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,160
NEWSREEL: A heavy crane was
manoeuvred into position

583
00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:59,520
to lift the tail section.

584
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,720
The chief crash investigator
Ed Trimble has been told

585
00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:09,680
to give no further TV interviews
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586
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,240
that he could find no evidence
of a fire in the right-hand engine.

587
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:15,960
REPORTER: Mr Trimble, BBC.
Can we talk to you?

588
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:17,560
I'm sorry.

589
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:24,560
I couldn't conceive that something
so disastrous had actually occurred.

590
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,240
<font color="
have turned off the wrong engine?

591
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,400
NEWSREEL: Checks are being made
on cockpit instruments,

592
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,400
which could possibly have given the
pilot inaccurate information

593
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,160
about the emergency he was
fighting to control.

594
00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:42,640
<font color="

595
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:47,200
is, well, I could see it was
the left-hand engine. So...

596
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,960
..what could we have done? Should we
have done? You know what I mean?

597
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,600
The whether or not you should have
put your hand up...

598
00:44:54,720 --> 00:44:56,280
..kind of hangs heavy.

599
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,280
<font color="
the tip of a turbofan blade

600
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,400
sheared off and crashed through
the casing of an engine.

601
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,680
The initiating event
in the whole thing

602
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:17,040
was the failure of one blade
of the left-hand engine.

603
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,000
<font color="
were taken to the manufacturers.

604
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,960
They discovered the number 17
fan blade at the front had broken

605
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,400
and part of it had fallen back into
the engine,

606
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,200
causing extensive damage.

607
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,240
There was a lot of vibration,

608
00:45:38,240 --> 00:45:41,800
<font color="
actually went into what we call

609
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:47,960
surge, which includes bangs
and high vibration.

610
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:51,680
It's almost like
an engine backfiring.

611
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,760
NEWSREEL: One second after
the vibration started,

612
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,320
<font color="
said, "We got a fire."

613
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:00,960
Eight seconds later, he said...

614
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:05,280
Captain Kevin Hunt replied...

615
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:08,240
Mr McClelland...

616
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:11,840
"OK," said Captain Hunt.

617
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:13,640
"Throttle it back."

618
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,480
Having diagnosed what they thought
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619
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,720
they pulled the throttle back
on that engine.

620
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:26,320
And actually, as they did that,

621
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,960
the vibration and the smoke
seemed to go away.

622
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,480
And the crew identify that as being,

623
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,560
"Oh, that confirms
we did the right thing,"

624
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:42,680
<font color="
down the right-hand engine.

625
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,200
They didn't actually
have a fire warning,

626
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,200
so it would not be necessary

627
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,360
for them to have shut down
the right-hand engine.

628
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,680
They believed they had a healthy
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629
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:00,440
to fly that aircraft
to an alternative destination.

630
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,320
As they prepared
to make their landing,

631
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,280
what is normally the case,
they will apply additional thrust.

632
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,960
And it was in doing that
<font color="

633
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,080
started to fail further.

634
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,360
The crew at that point
have no options.

635
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:28,480
They can't restart
the right-hand engine in time,

636
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,200
and that makes the descent
into the motorway

637
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,200
sort of inevitable.

638
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,600
<font color="

639
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,520
NEWSREEL: The official report into
the M1 air crash criticises the

640
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:52,720
two pilots, Captain Kevin Hunt and
the co-pilot David McClelland.

641
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:56,920
It says they acted prematurely when
they shut down what turned out to be

642
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:58,320
<font color="

643
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,440
The report said their hasty decision
to turn off

644
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,960
the wrong engine caused the tragedy.

645
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:11,240
The crew felt that
they followed their training,

646
00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:13,680
that they responded to the
information that was available

647
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:15,040
<font color="

648
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,120
NEWSREEL: The pilots of the British
Midland Jet

649
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,200
are to leave the airline in January.

650
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,240
British Midland said it viewed
with "grave concern"

651
00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:25,640
the report's conclusion that
the pilots' actions

652
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,520
<font color="

653
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:33,400
Subsequent to the accident,

654
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:38,080
when people made reports about human
error and pilot error in this case,

655
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:41,080
they felt that was
an unfair characterisation

656
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:42,440
of what they'd done,

657
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,200
and so they defended their
<font color="

658
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:48,280
The basic understanding
of pilot error is...

659
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,080
..they, the pilots, messed it up.

660
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:55,160
They made a mistake. They completely
went...off the rails.

661
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,600
We certainly made a mistake.

662
00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:59,280
We both made mistakes.

663
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,480
<font color="
And...the question

664
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,960
that WE would like answered
is WHY did we make those mistakes?

665
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,720
ARCHIVE: David McClelland had been
hoping to resume his flying career

666
00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:13,600
with British Midland.

667
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,080
He also attacked
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668
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,000
of the investigator's report.

669
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,440
It contains a great number
of criticisms.

670
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:25,160
Some are directed at us,
some are directed elsewhere.

671
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:27,560
I cannot begin to tell you
of the frustration

672
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:31,840
<font color="
have been given less press coverage

673
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:35,080
than have those directed against
Kevin and myself.

674
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,000
The accident investigation report,

675
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,000
whilst it mentioned the actions
of the pilots,

676
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,600
actually focused more on
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677
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,400
that led to the engine failing
in the first place,

678
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,840
but also in terms of
flight deck design,

679
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:55,520
the ergonomics and the training

680
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,480
that led the crew
to make the decision that they did.

681
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,600
<font color="
the report says that

682
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,960
television cameras should be
installed in the tails of aircraft

683
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,560
to give an accurate view
of external problems.

684
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:14,960
The stories of Kegworth very much
tend to focus on the error

685
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:18,800
<font color="
actually, there were many lessons

686
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:20,960
to be learned
from that accident,

687
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,920
and there's been many changes across
the industry as a consequence of it.

688
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,600
NEWSREEL: Mrs O'Hagan's ankles
<font color="

689
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:33,360
She still has to use a wheelchair
to go shopping,

690
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:36,320
and she's had to give up
her perfume franchise.

691
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:42,920
My right leg,

692
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:47,600
we couldn't get it into a position
that it was...

693
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:49,360
..easier to walk on...

694
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,960
<font color="
were very high,

695
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:58,320
so they decided I'd be better off
having an amputee.

696
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,920
What we realised from our research
at Kegworth

697
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,800
was that a lot of the occupants
had broken their legs,

698
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:18,560
couldn't walk, and therefore
<font color="

699
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,520
couldn't have got out the plane.

700
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,240
NEWSREEL: A research team quickly
embarked on the most detailed study

701
00:51:27,240 --> 00:51:29,040
yet of air crash survivors.

702
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:32,760
Every survivor was photographed
and interviewed.

703
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:37,040
Every injury, including minor cuts
<font color="

704
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:41,520
Because of the close proximity of
the Kegworth accident to Nottingham,

705
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:44,360
where Professor Angus Wallace
did his work,

706
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,040
it meant that we learnt
a huge amount about

707
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:52,080
what happens in severe accidents
<font color="

708
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:55,000
The height and weight of
one passenger from the centre

709
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,720
of the plane, and the position
he was sitting in,

710
00:51:57,720 --> 00:51:59,920
were added to recreate
his exact movements

711
00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:01,560
during the split-second crash.

712
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,640
<font color="
effect around the world

713
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:08,400
in terms of aircraft design,

714
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,600
but also in terms of
the procedures we use

715
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,880
to teach people about things
like the brace position.

716
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:17,160
The further they investigated
<font color="

717
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,680
the more critical they became
over cabin safety.

718
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,920
NEWSREEL: Under impact conditions,
the design of the seats

719
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:29,240
and the restraint systems can have
a significant effect on survival.

720
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,000
The objective we set was to try

721
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:40,680
<font color="

722
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,480
For the brace for impact position,

723
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:46,440
we recommend that the feet
are placed

724
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:50,280
on the ground
slightly behind the knees.

725
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,440
At 20G, roughly the force of
the Kegworth crash,

726
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,400
the legs on the rear dummy
<font color="

727
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:58,160
but only slightly,

728
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:01,080
and the flailing of the arms,
which caused so many fractures

729
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:02,840
in Kegworth, is much less.

730
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,280
We all, the whole research team,

731
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:12,080
felt we were doing
something special.

732
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,760
We can't bring people back,

733
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:19,400
<font color="
to make life better in the future.

734
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:30,080
The people in Kegworth
and round that area

735
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,720
were just magnificent to us,
absolutely.

736
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:36,440
They brought us presents.
They took...

737
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,800
I mean, they didn't have to do that,
<font color="

738
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:43,360
They did. And we're grateful.

739
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:47,320
We've great respect for the people
who helped us,

740
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:50,680
and the rescue service as well.

741
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:01,440
You think that's what you're
there for because that's your job.

742
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,640
That's your job,
to get them people out.

743
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,400
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744
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,920
the people that were in their cars
that night,

745
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,280
and people from Kegworth town came.

746
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:14,800
They, they...
Because it was so close.

747
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:19,120
They saw this plane coming down
and they came in their cars...

748
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:21,000
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749
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,000
So it's fantastic, you know.

750
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:25,760
You can't believe

751
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:27,560
how people come together.

752
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:29,000
Come on.

753
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:51,000
It was not possible
to put a memorial by the M1.

754
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:52,760
It was too dangerous.

755
00:54:54,720 --> 00:55:00,040
So the soil was brought from
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756
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,400
tonnes of it, to here,

757
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:06,640
so that it could form part of
the memorial garden.

758
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:17,000
As the parish clerk, I had to
organise the actual printing

759
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,000
of the names on the memorial.

760
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,320
That was one of the hardest things
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761
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:28,200
because obviously I had to
type out the names.

762
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,160
And of course, every single one

763
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,200
of those people had passed away.

764
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:43,000
And I found it extremely difficult.
I kept trying to type them,

765
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,000
and I had to stop
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766
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,040
thinking that those...

767
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:53,200
..each of those names was one person
that had died in the disaster.

768
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:20,760
There's never, ever one reason
for an accident to occur.

769
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:25,920
I don't put the blame onto anyone
or any company or anything.

770
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:31,000
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multitude of things and it happened.

771
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:36,000
And I'm only too thankful
that Sonya and myself are alive,

772
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,920
that I can tell my story.

773
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,760
If it can help anybody else
for the ones who

774
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:48,000
their members of their family
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775
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:54,440
if this...is just a way of letting
them know they're not forgotten.