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Date Posted: 29/10/15 16:35:34
Author: Howard Larder
Subject: Re: Canberra crash, Akrotiri

It should have been me in the aircraft at that time! Kim & I were good chums and he'd chided me that I'd scrounged too many freebie rides over the bombing range at Larnaca and that it was about time that he he had a ride. I agreed.

The night before, a gang of us including the the two aircrew who died had had a real good night out at the Green Rock bar in Hero's Square in downtown Limassol.

Detachment completed I returned to Laarbruch in the Herc which also carried Kim's body.

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[> Re: Canberra crash, Akrotiri -- Heinz Willi Knechten, 10/03/16 19:46:06

Is the thread about this disaster?
The second of two Canberras B(i)8 - XM 267 - was caught in the slipstream of the first Canberra while landing at RAF Akrotiri (Cyprus). It crashed into the runway. 2 crew (Fg Off Roger Graham Ellis and Fg Off Roderick Colin Murray MacMillan) and a passenger (SAC Kim Colin Petty-Fitzmaurice on a ‚joy-ride‘) were killed.
RAF Laarbruch Museum is covering the history of 45 years RAF at Laarbruch.
www.laarbruch-museum.net
and fatal accidents:
https://sites.google.com/site/raflaarbruch/home/toedliche-abstuerze

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