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MiG-29 Fulcrum " Fairford is a huge airbase, and I can't describe how quiet that place went within seconds of those MiGs hitting. The severed nose MiG crashed near to some parked aircraft - a Belgian C-130 lost it's starboard tailplane after being hit by wreckage, and rumour has it that the crew of the Herc were sitting on top of the it watching the display when the accident happened. The other MiG landed in a field outside the airbase just missing a huge stack of hay bales that several spectators were standing on. To the credit of the performing aircrews, the show carried on, and within minutes of the emergency services leaping into action, the Swiss display team in their Hunters took off and continued the show. I had a meeting pre-planned with the boss of the British Army Air Corps helicopter display team ( Silver Eagles - usually Blue Eagles, but the team were celebrating an anniversary ) regarding an artwork project with my caricatures that I was doing for the team, at a time soon after the accident. The meeting still went ahead and I found out then that both pilots had ejected safely. Stories were already going around about what had happened, and it is said that the pilots landed within walking distance from each other. The broken wing MiG pilot sat down in the field and lit a cigarette. The broken nose MiG pilot landed, and with a ( dislocated or broken shoulder? ) went over to the other pilot and promptly rammed his good fist into the other guys nose as hard as he could. He then sat down next to the him and also lit a cigarette, and there they stayed, smoking and chatting until an ambulance arrived! |
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