Hi Alan>> I didn't catch all the details. I believe the passenger ejected after touchdown, but the captain stayed in the aircraft - he didn't make it. The aircraft was a two seat jet trainer. <<
Wrong way round according to my paper (Daily Telegraph). Ironically it appears the pilot ejected and was killed while the passenger stayed on board and received only minor cuts and bruises.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F06%2F03%2Fnjet03.xml
If the following can be printed, here is the text of the story:
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Daily Telegraph, Monday, June 3rd, 2002
Pilot killed as jet hits M11
By David Sapsted
(Filed: 03/06/2002)
The pilot of a two-seater jet trainer was killed yesterday when his aircraft ran off the end of a runway and crashed on to a motorway.
The wreckage of the plane blocks the M11 in Cambridgeshire after overshooting the runway
Police said it was "an extraordinary piece of luck" that the Czech-built L-39 trainer did not hit any vehicles on either carriageway of the busy M11 in Cambridgeshire.
The pilot ejected as the aircraft left the runway at Duxford airfield, home of the Imperial War Museum's historic aircraft collection. His body was recovered from a field beside the motorway.
The second man in the privately-owned aircraft clambered from the wreckage with only minor cuts and bruises.
No names were being issued until next of kin had been told.
The accident occurred shortly after 2pm and a three-mile jam quickly built up. The M11, which runs from east London to East Anglia, remained shut last night between junctions 9 and 11 as air accident officials scoured the scene.
The L-39, the standard jet trainer in the Warsaw Pact in the 1970s and 1980s and capable of speeds up to 470mph, had appeared to make a normal landing. A police spokesman said: "It landed on the runway but is believed to have suffered a brake failure.
"It is extraordinary that it did not hit any cars. Traffic has been particularly busy over the holiday weekend, with people pouring on to the roads at lunchtime after England's World Cup match."
Ken Lyndon-Dykes, part-owner of the aircraft, said it was on a training flight from its home aerodrome about 30 miles away at North Weald in Essex. He described the pilot as a "very, very fine man".
He added: "We had breakfast together this morning and he was looking forward to having some fun today."
The crash is the latest in a series at Duxford. Last July a pilot and a photographer escaped serious injury when the vintage T6 Harvard plane they were flying crashed on take-off and burst into flames.
In 1997 the last working Second World War German Messerschmitt Bf109 crash-landed upside down in a field beside the M11.
A year earlier, the pilot of a Second World War P-38 Lightning was killed when he hit a line of parked planes.
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