Reading this suddenly reminded me of the 1987 event.
I was making my way from Six Mile Bottom to Bury St Edmunds in my Luton van.
I’d just come through the high street and could see column of thick black smoke up ahead, but had no clue as to what it was.
Anyway, As I approached the traffic light junction where the road splits off towards the A11 one way or Kentford/Bury the other with a horse crossing, it was clear that there was a fire on the left at the junction which I thought was a house.
When I reached the junction, I realised that it was not a house, but an aircraft.
The bulk of what I saw of the aircraft miracuously seemed to be in this little gap between houses with some/most of it seemingly leaning up against a telegraph/electricity pole and was well alight.
I seem to remember It was right next to the house on the left side of the gap, but the house did not seem to be affected as I recall, (lord knows how).
Having had a good ogle for a few minutes, I then carried on with my journey.
The local TV evening news then told us it was an F-111 that had crashed and that the pilots had ejected in their capsule which landed elsewhere, which we now know was bury hill.
Just my little take on the event
Looking at the scene today with the houses and a pole still being present, you’d never guess what had happened there.
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