"i Was There!!"

[Franks Wild Years]

FWY, that happened around the time I left the Netherlands for the first time to come back to the UK, don't think that they ever really knew the total figure for those who were killed...apparently the block housed a lot of illegal immigrants who weren't registered with anyone or known to the authorities, the only fortunate thing was that the plane was a freighter and not carrying passengers...in which case the horror would have been magnified.

It was an el Al freight plane, and I seem to remeber that after the crash there was reports of people getting ill from lung complaints and the roumour was the plane was carrying some kind of nerve agent destined for the Isreal Army.
I lived on the 8th floor of that block and we were right under the flight path for any planes going east from Schipol, Miguel P who posts on here sometimes was my flat mate and I remember him saying a few times about what terrible carnage it would cause if a plane came down here.
Very sad when I think of the neighbours I knew on nodding terms or the little kids that used to ride up and down the corridors on the back of a fierce looking rotweiller, laughing their heads off.

 

[Monkster]

Dodgy knees possibly saved my life. Deciding between coach or train to visit my then wifes family in Rotterdam, we thought train would be best as I could get up and walk about if my knees started hurting.

Had we chosen coach, we would have been coming back on the Herald of Free Enterprise.

I was on the Herald of Free Enterprise the day before it happened

 

[tip top]

I spent a little time talking to Senna on the saturday qualifying at Imola the weekend he died.

A friend was an engineer on his car when his was with Mclaren and they were still close.

I'll never forget the scenes in the Mclaren garage and the whole pit lane on the sunday he was killed. Still puts a large lump in my throat to this day.

He signed a cap which sits pride of place in a display cabinet.

 

[The Large One]

I was in the room when Adam Faith was being interviewed for his last-ever magazine interview.

That is a bit tenuous from the original earth-shatterers above, but I thought it was poignant.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Was on a station platform in Istanbul 45 mins before the PKK blew it up in 1992 and was in Tokyo when a minor earthquake hit in 2003 (minor international news... just got a mention). Also lived in a flat in 1985 that got absolutely flattened in the İzmit earthquake... my ex-in laws were badly injured in the same earthquake.

Oh and I was at Wembley at a certain international event in 1983......

 

[Hampden Park]

I was on the Herald of Free Enterprise the day before it happened

whilst serving at RN Commcen Plymouth when the HOFE had rolled over, one of the wrens received a phone call stating that it was her brothers responsibility to ensure the front doors were closed. she was devestated.

 

[Cian]

I was in the room when Adam Faith was being interviewed for his last-ever magazine interview.

That is a bit tenuous from the original earth-shatterers above, but I thought it was poignant.

Adam Faith - best last words ever. "Channel 5 is all shit, isn't it? Christ, the crap they put on there. It's a waste of space"

 

[desprateseagull]

was caught up in Gatwick bomb scare back in 1997, all roads and slipways from the M23 were gridlocked for hours, I got into work at 1pm, and gave in my notice there and then- couldnt face that every day.

 

[Franks Wild Years]

I was in the room when Adam Faith was being interviewed for his last-ever magazine interview.

That is a bit tenuous from the original earth-shatterers above, but I thought it was poignant.

Was that in a hotel somewhere ? I was checking into a hotel with (name drop) Ross Noble and some ambulance men were pushing a gurney out with a covered up body on top and the receptionist said it was Adam Faith ! One of the most sureal moments of my life !

(We spent the rest of the tour making really bad and inapropriate Adam Faith death related jokes.)

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Not quite the same thing, but I recall walking around Windsor one sunny afternoon a few years back, and as we strolled through the castle area, saying to my mate "I can't believe the Queen Mother's still going, surely it's about time the old bird drank her last Gordons and popped off this mortal coil".

An hour later we get in the car and over the radio comes "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, has died at the age of one hundred and one".

It wasn't me, honest

 

[Questions]

I was in the north stand the day it all kicked off with Spurs.

 

[The Large One]

Was that in a hotel somewhere ? I was checking into a hotel with (name drop) Ross Noble and some ambulance men were pushing a gurney out with a covered up body on top and the receptionist said it was Adam Faith ! One of the most sureal moments of my life !

(We spent the rest of the tour making really bad and inapropriate Adam Faith death related jokes.)

No, it was about three weeks before he died.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Not quite the same thing, but I recall walking around Windsor one sunny afternoon a few years back, and as we strolled through the castle area, saying to my mate "I can't believe the Queen Mother's still going, surely it's about time the old bird drank her last Gordons and popped off this mortal coil".

An hour later we get in the car and over the radio comes "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, has died at the age of one hundred and one".

It wasn't me, honest

Why weren't you in Colchester?