1968 Heathrow Airspeed Ambassador Crash (Video 2)
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On 3 July 1968 Airspeed
On 3 July 1968 Airspeed Ambassador (G-AMAD) of BKS Air Transport crashed at London Heathrow Airport, damaging two parked Trident airliners as it cartwheeled into the incomplete London Heathrow Terminal 1, then under construction.
Written account from Etta Montgomery (wife of Collis Montgomery):
"Collis Montgomery was killed in the BKS Heathrow London Air Crash with 5 mares and 3 foals flying from Deauville (London). Second flight that day. Horses valued at GPB 80,000. At 5.27pm on Wednesday the 3rd of July 1968.
He went through 3 partitions in the tail of the plane, also the steel padded sound barrier - instantaneous.
8 men on board, 3 survived. The pilot, co-pilot and engineer burned, the plane broke in half. Fatigue – a piece of metal went in the left flap of the wing. 4 mares lay on the tarmac and bled to death. The horses piled up in the crash first and men were underneath, except for one whose foot went through the floor. Then the tail turned upside down and as he was hanging from the ceiling the nurse injected him to put him out of pain and thought he was going to be burned too. He came to in hospital and told the story of the inside of the plane, and told me when I saw the plane after the crash".
Written account from Etta Montgomery (wife of Collis Montgomery):
"Collis Montgomery was killed in the BKS Heathrow London Air Crash with 5 mares and 3 foals flying from Deauville (London). Second flight that day. Horses valued at GPB 80,000. At 5.27pm on Wednesday the 3rd of July 1968.
He went through 3 partitions in the tail of the plane, also the steel padded sound barrier - instantaneous.
8 men on board, 3 survived. The pilot, co-pilot and engineer burned, the plane broke in half. Fatigue – a piece of metal went in the left flap of the wing. 4 mares lay on the tarmac and bled to death. The horses piled up in the crash first and men were underneath, except for one whose foot went through the floor. Then the tail turned upside down and as he was hanging from the ceiling the nurse injected him to put him out of pain and thought he was going to be burned too. He came to in hospital and told the story of the inside of the plane, and told me when I saw the plane after the crash".
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