[Magdalen] re Where were you?

[Brian Reid]

I don’t remember his name, and everyone who could tell me is dead. About a year after the accident, Cynthia’s mother married another airman who became her father. He knew all about the tragic accident, of course. 

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> On Jul 17, 2019, at 7:28 AM, Michael Bishop <rev at michaelbishop.name> wrote:
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> That is an amazing link. Looking up on the net for details, I see that actually only three crew died - one was thrown clear but had a parachute problem which resulted in his death.    The other death was that of a woman in the employees canteen at a dyeworks which was hit by falling debris
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> God bless
> 
> Michael Bishop
> rev at michaelbishop.name
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>>> On 17 Jul 2019, at 2:57 pm, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
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>>> On 2019-07-17 03:35, Michael Bishop wrote:
>>> 
>>> What I actually saw, though was not
>>> Sputnik but rather a pair of RAF De Havilland Vampire Jets having a
>>> head-on collision which killed four crew plus one civilian on the
>>> ground.
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>> Small world. Cynthia McFarland's mother's first husband was piloting one of those jets.
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