Comments | crashed 17.07.80, shortly after take off from Bruggen, West Germany the port engine lost power, the pilot attempted to return to base but ejected when both engines caught fire due to a fuel leak, it crashed into woods five miles from the base. (The official MoD accident report gives the crash location as "1 Km South-West of Hardt, Germany"), Flt. Lt. J. Wittingham ejected from the aircraft, and landed in the car park of a bank, from where he telephoned his squadron, clutching his parachute, he rang Ops from a bank to say where he was and the DOO told him to 'go away' because a jet had just crashed |