20 years ago-Hawk Crash at Shap

[LaurasOtherHalf]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/482460.stm


https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/17985763.servic...

I remember it well, and the reports of the pilot flying to avoid the village.

[eccles]

Two minutes of googling shows that the crew staying with the aircraft to avoid the village is very unlikely.

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/2012101...

[anonymous-user]

Used to live close by to there and remember it. At the time it didn't seem long since this happened very close by (probably less than a couple of minutes flight time away from Shap)...

https://www.apnews.com/4226c84885e83b2958f230e96dd...

[LaurasOtherHalf]

janesmith1950 said:

Used to live close by to there and remember it. At the time it didn't seem long since this happened very close by (probably less than a couple of minutes flight time away from Shap)...

https://www.apnews.com/4226c84885e83b2958f230e96dd...

I don’t remember that one so thanks for posting.

[anonymous-user]

When we first moved to Cumbria (not long before the Millburn crash), we used to live in a house on top of a hill in a little village between Millburn and Shap.

It was if the Tornados used our house as a waypoint, as they often came over at a few hundred feet (felt very, very low) chasing each other and we often talked about how close they'd got.

There was noticeably much less of it after the Milburn accident.

Fast forward 30 years and I was walking above Langdale during the summer and enjoyed looking down at what looked to me like F16s chasing each other down into and through the valley.

[Lotobear]

I recall being sent to the farmhouse it clipped to survey and provide a damage report for the insurers.

The farmer had some pretty graphic comments I recall, can't believe it's 20 years ago.

Needless to say, farmers being farmers, they insisted I stayed for lunch - mince and tatties followed by rice pudding!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Yes we were doing a dev at either Stainon or Penrith at the time and one of the lads lived in Shap, the story of the little flags sticks with you...

[stevemiller]

My two kids were in Shap school the day of the crash. My wife and I had been in Penrith not knowing what happened when we came down from the M6 to find the access to the village closed, police and barriers. We had to convince the policeman that we lived in Shap to get past the check point. Quite scary not knowing what was going on and fearful that something had happened at the school.