COLD WAR CATASTROPHE

During 1950s and the early days of the Cold War, the number of RAF aircraft lost through accidents was astonishing. In that decade alone it ran into thousands of aircraft and well over 2,000 fatalities amongst aircrew and civilians on the ground. One such incident involved a Meteor jet which tore through the centre of an East Sussex village

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