Hi everyone. I realise I have come to this thread quite late, but just in case anyone is reading it several years later like I am, and a bit confused, there were actually two F111 crashes at Newmarket, ten years apart (1977 and 1987). The first crashed near Scaltback school as has been mentioned here, and the other crashed at the edge of Newmarket near the Bury Road. I grew up in Newmarket and although I didn’t know much about the first crash, I remember the second one very well. A friend and I were outside at the time but bizarrely saw and heard nothing, but my friend’s mum saw the aircraft descending to earth on fire. I grabbed my sister’s camera, jumped on my pushbike (being a plane-mad schoolboy at the time) and cycled to the scene. Took quite a few photos of the crash site, the escape pod, the USAF Hercules circling low over the town and the RAF Sea King that came to get the crew from the escape pod (I’m pretty sure it was an RAF one although I distinctly remember it was grey – can only surmise it was still in a Falklands detachment scheme as they were grey at the time iirc) which landed on the side of Warren Hill where the escape pod landed. In what has truly grieved me ever since, my sister had trouble removing the film (no digital in those days!) and fogged the whole thing!! I have three small pieces of zinc oxide coloured metal still which I intend to mount with a model of the aircraft. My friend found a section of airframe with an aerial in it in the woods on Warren Hill but some nice policemen ‘liberated’ him of it!! I believe the Escape pod of this aircraft is now at Duxford so I guess the pod that someone mentioned at Dumfries is from the earlier 1977 crash (just had a look at some F111 info on the internet and it seems several UK-based F111’s crashed in Scotland so chances are it was a pod from one of these that ended up at Dumfries?). Wonderful days – and no-one killed or badly injured in either crash as far as I know.