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Lightning Strike!!! (literally :-( ) PHOTO : seconds before impact---Test Pilot George Aird ejecting from pre-production English Electric Lightning XG332 operated by de Havilland after it caught fire at aircrafts reheat zone that weakened the tailplane control system and failed at 100ft on final approach during a demonstration flight on September 13,1962. Pilot George Aird came down through a greenhouse roof, breaking both legs and right thigh but eventually recovered to resume his flying career :-) . Photograph by Jim Meads, a countryside photographer, who was doing a photo-shoot for a farming magazine with the tractor on it as planned at that time when the lightning struck source info links : 1) Lightning XG332 Crash Escape Photo Thread forum.keypublishing/showthread.php?97786-Lightning-XG332-Crash-escape-photo 2) List of accidents and incidents involving the English Electric Lightning en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_English_Electric_Lightning
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:23:34 +0000

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