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“The ageing, 30-year old Tri-Star developed a landing gear fault soon after takeoff and we had to fly over the sea, dump most of our fuel and make a full emergency landing back at Brize Norton. An inauspicious start”
Vij Raneniya on a hair-raising start to the Afghanistan trip
“During the morning’s briefing we could hear the bomb disposal technicians exploding captured ordinance, along with the sound of small arms fire from the ranges. This, together with the non-stop arrival and departure of aircraft and helicopters made for an intense level of activity at this base, which has some 10,000 people from many, many nations”
Having landed in Afghanistan things begin to hot up for the FRS delegation
“A small amount of explosives packed into the inside of a cassette tape recorder blew up in the luggage hold of Pan Am flight 103 from Heathrow to New York while it was flying at 31,000 feet. The explosion – estimated to have the force of a very large shotgun – penetrated the Boeing 747 fuselage creating a “starburst” hole. The shock wave from the consequent rupture literally shook the aircraft to pieces”
FIRE correspondent Tony Prosser reviews the Lockerbie tragedy from 1988
Praise for Retained Kent Firefighters; Effective response in South Wales; Merseyside meat packing blaze; Lincolnshire USAR team leads the way
Tragic air crashes which transformed aviation response
In the first of a series of special reports analysing major post war incidents and FRS response, FIRE correspondent Tony Prosser focuses on tragic air crashes – including Manchester and Lockerbie – which altered the course of response to aviation incidents
Maritime Incident Response Group
Area Commander Craig Cook gives an introduction to the structure of, and the work undertaken by, the UK’s Maritime Incident Response Grou
The camera never lies
FIRE’s Avon correspondent Denis McCann looks at some extraordinarynew technology recently tested by the county’s fire and rescue service
Ordinary people doing extraordinary jobsCFO Dominic Harrison, Cumbria, and DCFO Vij Randeniya, WestMidlands, have recently returned from visiting British troops in Afghanistan. This article – written by Vij – tells the story |
