Jaypen2. I was only 20 months old - I can't even remember it. It was my mother that told me many years later what I'd said. Apparently I did have a tendency to freak her out coming out with sayings that I shouldn't have. Another thing I said about the age of three was 'Don't like it in there mummy, wet your head and make you cry', as we were walking past a church I'd been christened at but never been to since. I was only six weeks old when I was christened...... how could I have known??
I was only 20 months old when this happened. The plane passed over my house and I turned to my mum and said 'bad plane mummy, going to crash'. My mother went cold - even more so when she found out it had. Those poor souls but what a magnificant pilot to control the plane and bring it down without loss of life on the ground.
@deltarory Fascinating. It must have been extremely loud for you to say that. Was the plane nose down? Did it sound like it was in that position or did you actually see it?
Any ideas where about's this happened exactly? I was only ever told about this by my grandparents, but they never said where it happened. Though some people told me it was near where the crucible pub is.
Thanks again jayjaypen2, Sorry for the delay in reply, I am planning to go to the Memorial, and pay my Belated Respects, and will do so whenever I am in the Region. Good Health to You and Yours.
Never knew any facts or details,or about this Newsreel,I was 8yr old when it happend and my childhood friend and his family died in the crash. My parents protected me from the horror of it, I am Grateful for the information and to the Good,Brave and Heroic Rescuers, but Disgusted by the behavior of some,and over the latter day "Redevelopement" of the crash site Memorial. May they,their familys,and those who robbed the Dead, All Rot in Hell. Thanks again jayjaypen2
@paul6henry Your most welcome. That must have been awful to lose your friend. I cannot understand why a respectable memorial was not put in place right after it had happened.
@paul6henry it was sunday morning my dad worked near hopes car and was on his way to work the aircraft skimmed the top of my dads car, he was one of the first people at the crash and helped one of the air hostess out but told me people were screaming because they were trapped by the seats in front and couldnt move
In 1967 I was 14 and I remember outside Ashton's sweet shop on Garners Lane when the news came through. People were queuing at the bus stop just to go and look at the ensuing chaos. How sick!
I lived on Hillgate at the time of the crash.I remember the noise & my dad & neighbours running to help. I also remember him coming back & saying how disgusted he was that ice cream vans & hot dog vendors were doing buisness. It could have been alot worse if he had hit the nearby houses. Shame it took so many years to erect a memorial to such a tragic event.
The cause of the crash was not found to be pilot error but a fuel transfer value which had been fitted the 'wrong way around' causing fuel starvation to the engines. The valve was not marked for corrrect fitting and it was a tragic case of ' murphy's law'
I was born. In 1969 2 years after it happened. From aged seven. I swore I saw an airplane door. At the crash site. I didn't know there was a plane crash there. Until I mentioned the door. My brother told me what happened. And he was sure all the pieces we have been cleared up. So the question was. How would I have known that was the crash site. If I didn't see the door. Can anyone tell me when they did the memorial if they cleared a door away. It has been puzzle to me for a good numb
The pilot did avoid a greater disaster by dropping the plane down where did. I do recall the investigation revealed pilot / co pilot error.The plane was the old prop engine type, there is a lever the pilot should have switched across to transfer fuel. He failed to do that and the engines cut out. Lack of knowledge or training? I am not sure. Not a mechanical fault though. Human error.
The mist is on the Camera cover, if you follow the cars route you see it all the way. I grew up in Moston but had no idea that there was an air crash, perhaps i was told but was too young to rememebr, I was 3 when it happened.
my dad was one of the policemen at the site.he lived with the horrors for most of his life afterwards...i've never seen any mention of him or his close friends at the time mentioned in any reports...he spoke of the scavengers of the crash site as well the burger vans there..he also spoke of the blood curdling screams of people burning to death...it put me off joining the police force
@jayjaypen2 St Petersgate, We went once a week from Dialstone school.
Lived 2 streets away from the crash (Gorsey Mount St) and still remember that Sunday all to well. Yes there were hotdog/ice cream sellers, as well as people knocking on our front door to ask where the crash was.
@jayjaypen2 The old swimming baths was on St Petersgate about 10 mins walk away from site of aircrash.
If you walked from crashsite towards A6 you would cross Hilgate at traffice lights and walk past police station, the end of TownHall extension, Ponsonby House and end of Town Hall Frontage. You would then cross A6 road and be outside the frontage of Stockport Infirmary. This could be walked in around 7 minutes. That is how close the crash came to landing on the Infirmary., A miracle.
@jayjaypen2 The old swimming baths was on St Petersgate about 10 mins walk away from site of aircrash.
If you walked from crashsite towards A6 you would cross Hilgate at traffice lights and walk past police station, the end of TownHall extension, Ponsonby House and end of Town Hall Frontage. You would then cross A6 road and be outside the frontage of Stockport Infirmary. This could be walked in around 7 minutes. That is how close the crash came to landing on the Infirmary., A miracle.
@jayjaypen2 The old swimming baths was on St Petersgate about 10 mins walk away from site of aircrash.
If you walked from crashsite towards A6 you would cross Hilgate at traffice lights and walk past police station, the end of TownHall extension, Ponsonby House and end of Town Hall Frontage. You would then cross A6 road and be outside frontage of Stockport Infirmary. This could be walked in around 7 minutes. That is how close the crash came to landing on the Infirmary., A miracle.
I was brought up in Stockport & was 1 year old when the crash occured. I remember people talking about the crash as I grew up. The one thing people always said was that the pilot was actually a hero & that he had brought the plane down in an area near the town hall away from more residential areas.
Thanks for posting....I remember it well...I was driving in the car with my Dad, we were going to visit my Aunt in the infirmary, we heard the plane engines cut out. We never did get to the infirmary, the roads were quickly blocked. My friends sister was one of the survivors that was sitting in the tail section of the plane!
If you go on to Streetview and follow the arrows down Waterloo Road until you get to Hopes Carr - just at the entrance to the crash site (on the corner of Hopes Carr and Waterloo Road) there is a lamp post just beyond the yellow 'No Entry' barrier - towards the top of the lamp post there are spirit like mists .. I would be interested to know what anyone else thinks this could be .. it doesn't look like mist on the lens of the google car or low flying cloud .. interesting though.
this was dubbed as stockports blackest day for years as we grew up , when all the ghouls and vendors blocked the roads and the emergency services , it took away some of the heroics of the pilots and local people like mr donahoe etc who braved the pending fire to rescue people ,, a memorial garden should be on the site as a permanent memory .
Nice one for posting this news clip, my mother and father both ran the Waterloo pub across the road when this happened, I heard a lot about it when growing up. (like there being a hot-dog salesman at the crashsite, we think things are bad now!). My mother was pregnant with me at the time, I was born a couple of weeks later. (I still have a few charred coins which were found near the pub). By all accounts, the pilot did a good job to crash land where he did, in such a built up area.
Thanks for that milkthemonster. A hot-dog salesman was there on business? That's terrible, and something I suspect you just wouldn't have heard about in the news back then. Actually my grandmother explained it as something of a carnival experience of having an adventurous drive out to the crash site.
I was on board this plane on the flight before it crashed ! I was 12 years old and on a school trip to Belgium. A close thing i would say !!! Neil Reynolds (warrington)
Thanks for mentioning this Neil. That's absolutely fascinating to hear. I'm sure your teachers and friends were relieved but at the same time shocked?
My mother in law said there was a plane crash in Stockport, I never knew the details,I thought there may be a plaque or something.
fasciasstockport 1 month ago
Jaypen2. I was only 20 months old - I can't even remember it. It was my mother that told me many years later what I'd said. Apparently I did have a tendency to freak her out coming out with sayings that I shouldn't have. Another thing I said about the age of three was 'Don't like it in there mummy, wet your head and make you cry', as we were walking past a church I'd been christened at but never been to since. I was only six weeks old when I was christened...... how could I have known??
deltarory 1 month ago
I was only 20 months old when this happened. The plane passed over my house and I turned to my mum and said 'bad plane mummy, going to crash'. My mother went cold - even more so when she found out it had. Those poor souls but what a magnificant pilot to control the plane and bring it down without loss of life on the ground.
deltarory 1 month ago
@deltarory Fascinating. It must have been extremely loud for you to say that. Was the plane nose down? Did it sound like it was in that position or did you actually see it?
jayjaypen2 1 month ago
Any ideas where about's this happened exactly? I was only ever told about this by my grandparents, but they never said where it happened. Though some people told me it was near where the crucible pub is.
strifey07 2 months ago
I only watch this for the reporters voice, it's amazing xD
Redskull598z 2 months ago
I'm on this vid at 0:50 with my hands behind my back. The little guy next to me was my boss at the time.
pugilistofpower 4 months ago
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2008Sameoldfitup 4 months ago
Thanks again jayjaypen2, Sorry for the delay in reply, I am planning to go to the Memorial, and pay my Belated Respects, and will do so whenever I am in the Region. Good Health to You and Yours.
paul6henry 7 months ago
Never knew any facts or details,or about this Newsreel,I was 8yr old when it happend and my childhood friend and his family died in the crash. My parents protected me from the horror of it, I am Grateful for the information and to the Good,Brave and Heroic Rescuers, but Disgusted by the behavior of some,and over the latter day "Redevelopement" of the crash site Memorial. May they,their familys,and those who robbed the Dead, All Rot in Hell. Thanks again jayjaypen2
paul6henry 7 months ago
@paul6henry Your most welcome. That must have been awful to lose your friend. I cannot understand why a respectable memorial was not put in place right after it had happened.
jayjaypen2 7 months ago
@paul6henry it was sunday morning my dad worked near hopes car and was on his way to work the aircraft skimmed the top of my dads car, he was one of the first people at the crash and helped one of the air hostess out but told me people were screaming because they were trapped by the seats in front and couldnt move
DarkHorror49 7 months ago
In 1967 I was 14 and I remember outside Ashton's sweet shop on Garners Lane when the news came through. People were queuing at the bus stop just to go and look at the ensuing chaos. How sick!
Grace22ification 7 months ago
bit sick selling hotdogs at the site,but im sure a massive coffee company was charging $5 per bottle of water when 911 happend.
andyveccyv6 7 months ago
I lived on Hillgate at the time of the crash.I remember the noise & my dad & neighbours running to help. I also remember him coming back & saying how disgusted he was that ice cream vans & hot dog vendors were doing buisness. It could have been alot worse if he had hit the nearby houses. Shame it took so many years to erect a memorial to such a tragic event.
kestrelpat 9 months ago
The cause of the crash was not found to be pilot error but a fuel transfer value which had been fitted the 'wrong way around' causing fuel starvation to the engines. The valve was not marked for corrrect fitting and it was a tragic case of ' murphy's law'
JustProps 1 year ago
Number of years
Janpeanut100 1 year ago
I was born. In 1969 2 years after it happened. From aged seven. I swore I saw an airplane door. At the crash site. I didn't know there was a plane crash there. Until I mentioned the door. My brother told me what happened. And he was sure all the pieces we have been cleared up. So the question was. How would I have known that was the crash site. If I didn't see the door. Can anyone tell me when they did the memorial if they cleared a door away. It has been puzzle to me for a good numb
Janpeanut100 1 year ago
The pilot did avoid a greater disaster by dropping the plane down where did. I do recall the investigation revealed pilot / co pilot error.The plane was the old prop engine type, there is a lever the pilot should have switched across to transfer fuel. He failed to do that and the engines cut out. Lack of knowledge or training? I am not sure. Not a mechanical fault though. Human error.
madhatter251 1 year ago
The mist is on the Camera cover, if you follow the cars route you see it all the way. I grew up in Moston but had no idea that there was an air crash, perhaps i was told but was too young to rememebr, I was 3 when it happened.
kvnturner 1 year ago
my dad was one of the policemen at the site.he lived with the horrors for most of his life afterwards...i've never seen any mention of him or his close friends at the time mentioned in any reports...he spoke of the scavengers of the crash site as well the burger vans there..he also spoke of the blood curdling screams of people burning to death...it put me off joining the police force
stuartyboy666 1 year ago
@ComedyKingWurzul Interesting. Do you know where the old swimming baths was?
jayjaypen2 1 year ago
@jayjaypen2 St Petersgate, We went once a week from Dialstone school.
Lived 2 streets away from the crash (Gorsey Mount St) and still remember that Sunday all to well. Yes there were hotdog/ice cream sellers, as well as people knocking on our front door to ask where the crash was.
poyntonfella 1 year ago
@jayjaypen2 The old swimming baths was on St Petersgate about 10 mins walk away from site of aircrash.
If you walked from crashsite towards A6 you would cross Hilgate at traffice lights and walk past police station, the end of TownHall extension, Ponsonby House and end of Town Hall Frontage. You would then cross A6 road and be outside the frontage of Stockport Infirmary. This could be walked in around 7 minutes. That is how close the crash came to landing on the Infirmary., A miracle.
atlast1948 10 months ago
@jayjaypen2 The old swimming baths was on St Petersgate about 10 mins walk away from site of aircrash.
If you walked from crashsite towards A6 you would cross Hilgate at traffice lights and walk past police station, the end of TownHall extension, Ponsonby House and end of Town Hall Frontage. You would then cross A6 road and be outside the frontage of Stockport Infirmary. This could be walked in around 7 minutes. That is how close the crash came to landing on the Infirmary., A miracle.
atlast1948 10 months ago
@jayjaypen2 The old swimming baths was on St Petersgate about 10 mins walk away from site of aircrash.
If you walked from crashsite towards A6 you would cross Hilgate at traffice lights and walk past police station, the end of TownHall extension, Ponsonby House and end of Town Hall Frontage. You would then cross A6 road and be outside frontage of Stockport Infirmary. This could be walked in around 7 minutes. That is how close the crash came to landing on the Infirmary., A miracle.
atlast1948 10 months ago
@jayjaypen2 The old swimming baths were based on St.Petersgate. The land is an office building with car parking underneath now.,
atlast1948 10 months ago
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i died on that plane.
ThisAlbion 1 year ago
the first thing that is said the videos is 69 people were killed yet the first sentence in teh description says 72 people were killed
Freddiewgbs 1 year ago
@Freddiewgbs Yes, only 69 people may have been confirmed dead at the time of the news report.
jayjaypen2 1 year ago
I come from stockport
1JjOoEe1 1 year ago
I was brought up in Stockport & was 1 year old when the crash occured. I remember people talking about the crash as I grew up. The one thing people always said was that the pilot was actually a hero & that he had brought the plane down in an area near the town hall away from more residential areas.
glasfurd31 1 year ago
Thanks for posting....I remember it well...I was driving in the car with my Dad, we were going to visit my Aunt in the infirmary, we heard the plane engines cut out. We never did get to the infirmary, the roads were quickly blocked. My friends sister was one of the survivors that was sitting in the tail section of the plane!
ouzob 1 year ago
If you go on to Streetview and follow the arrows down Waterloo Road until you get to Hopes Carr - just at the entrance to the crash site (on the corner of Hopes Carr and Waterloo Road) there is a lamp post just beyond the yellow 'No Entry' barrier - towards the top of the lamp post there are spirit like mists .. I would be interested to know what anyone else thinks this could be .. it doesn't look like mist on the lens of the google car or low flying cloud .. interesting though.
Sansash01202 1 year ago
Lol @ the over dramatic background music
TheSimulator16 1 year ago
this was dubbed as stockports blackest day for years as we grew up , when all the ghouls and vendors blocked the roads and the emergency services , it took away some of the heroics of the pilots and local people like mr donahoe etc who braved the pending fire to rescue people ,, a memorial garden should be on the site as a permanent memory .
k1nkladze1 1 year ago
My grandfather was helping to pull people from this, he worked literally over the road, he always told me about this when i was a kid
deviousdanoh 2 years ago
Nice one for posting this news clip, my mother and father both ran the Waterloo pub across the road when this happened, I heard a lot about it when growing up. (like there being a hot-dog salesman at the crashsite, we think things are bad now!). My mother was pregnant with me at the time, I was born a couple of weeks later. (I still have a few charred coins which were found near the pub). By all accounts, the pilot did a good job to crash land where he did, in such a built up area.
milkthemonster 2 years ago
Thanks for that milkthemonster. A hot-dog salesman was there on business? That's terrible, and something I suspect you just wouldn't have heard about in the news back then. Actually my grandmother explained it as something of a carnival experience of having an adventurous drive out to the crash site.
jayjaypen2 2 years ago
wow, i live in stockport and i never knew that
romeo6669 2 years ago
@romeo6669 Yea it was on waterloo road
tripmonk 2 years ago
I was on board this plane on the flight before it crashed ! I was 12 years old and on a school trip to Belgium. A close thing i would say !!! Neil Reynolds (warrington)
cudaneil1 2 years ago
Thanks for mentioning this Neil. That's absolutely fascinating to hear. I'm sure your teachers and friends were relieved but at the same time shocked?
jayjaypen2 2 years ago
Thanks for uploading this as I always wanted to see the news report.
slow56k 2 years ago
THIS VERY GOOD FOOTAGE i allways wanted to see what happend there now i have seen ..thnx
seruioseblack 3 years ago
The curse of Ringway. Very sad. Fortunately there are a good choice of airports in the North these days.
fergovideos 3 years ago
Ringway is many miles away
mercuryg 2 years ago
Ringway is 6 miles from Stockport, not very long in flying time.
24934637 2 years ago