The guy smoking is Sergey Tresvyatsky I believe.
I was standing right next to him when he lit up, having been the first person to reach him, closely followed by a TV crew (I can be seen standing next to him [RAF uniform] in the video that they took).
I was in my car close to the nose of the Belgian C-130 when the collision occured. I didn’t see it, just heard it. The next thing I recall was a fireball going over the top of the open sunroof. Having seen the pilot coming down in his parachute I drove over to him. He actually landed just the other side of a small fence, which he climbed over to re-enter the airfield.
After unsuccessfully trying to flag down one of the hordes of ambulances that drove straight past us in their rush to get to the crash scene, I put him in my car and took him to the IAT medical centre, where he met up with the other pilot.
I am not aware of them coming to blows at all. If they did, it must have been after I left the scene.
Andy Marden
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