Summary: Observing a large wide body airliner crash is, mercifully, a rare occurrence but to have one crash onto your airfield when working as the Air Traffic Supervisor in the control tower puts it in a completely different category of amazing! This is Adams story of the day it happened to him at London's Heathrow airport.<br> <br> <br> <br> G-YMMM, the accident airframe a few years before.<br> <br> <br> <br> Speedbird 38 after the crash.<br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Marc-Antony Payne, Aero Icarus.
