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| Friday, October 12, 2007 |
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RAF Tornoado Pilots save a glider pilot
By FlyingNews @ 12:26 PM :: 188 Views ::
0 Comments :: Military Aviation, Gliders
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A glider pilot who endured twenty-eight agonising hours trapped in the wreckage of his plane in the Scottish Highlands today met and thanked the crew of an RAF Tornado bomber who found him.
Mr John Russell (65) a retired business executive from North Yorkshire was competing in a gliding competition in July 2006 when he failed to return. A massive Search and Rescue operation was reaching the end of its second day when the Tornado from RAF Lossiemouth spotted him. He had crash landed on a mountain side near Braemar and was trapped by his left leg which had shattered as it went through the floor on impact.
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