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From: David Clarke <crazydiamonds@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 06:33:09 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 10:13:17 -0400
Subject: Tornado Crash Puzzle


For those following the debate over the imaginary "Tornado
crash" in the English Peak District during 1997, the following
may be of interest.

On the morning of Thursday, October 14, 1999 a REAL Tornado GR1
ground attack aircraft crashed into a field near Kirkheaton in
Northumberland, killing both the pilot and the co-pilot.

Witnesses told of seeing an "horrendous fireball" as the Tornado
- which had been involved in a low-flying exercise - impacted
into the ground, leaving wreckage strewn some 400 metres across
the area and a hole five to six feet deep in a field.

Please note these details: many witnesses, enormous fireball,
wreckage strewn 400 metres, six foot hole in the ground.

Furthermore, within minutes of the crash police, fire fighters,
ambulance, RAF military police and mountain rescue - not to
mention dozens of Press - were swarming around the area.

You can take a car and drive to the scene today as the wreckage
could take weeks to remove while the MOD inquiry kicks into
action.

Last night military personnel were openly guarding the crash
site, 20 miles from Newcastle-upon-Tynem awaiting an air
accident team to arrive.

Note also that within hours of the tragedy unfolding, the RAF
Press Office had released the names of the pilot and co-pilot,
Flight Lieutenant Richard Wright and navigator Flight Lieutenant
Sean Casabayo, both 30.

Within minutes of this information arriving, colleagues of mine
had obtained the addresses and phone numbers of both men's
families and had spoken to the devastated girlfriend of
Casabayo, who is three months pregnant.

The grief of the families of these two brave fliers, both of
whom had ten years experience, was very real and puts into
context those claims that the death of an airman could be
successfully concealed for more than 2 years.

This is real life;

This is how news breaks about real aircrashes - and the facts
are that it would be impossible for a 20 tonne Tornado jet to
crash into an area sandwiched between two of the largest and
heavily populated cities in northern England without the Press
hearing about it.

As John Rimmer has pointed out the Peak moors are not  the Nevada
Desert - they are criss-crossed by roads, and literally hundreds of people
from Sheffield and Manchester hike across them every weekend.

On the night in 1997 we are discussing, police and civilian mountain rescue
teams were scouring the area within minutes of the reports of a low-flying
aircraft being received.

Hundreds of mountain rescue volunteers, all of whom are highly
skilled and are familiar with every nook and cranny of those
moors, were present and found nothing to indicate a crash had
taken place. It is also clear the RAF did not take the incident
seriously, as it took them over an hour to authorise a single
search and rescue helicopter to join the civilian search effort.

All the civilians involved including PDMRO chief Mike France, a
personal friend of mine, noted the "half-hearted" attitude of
the military to the whole incident.

If there had been even a whiff of suspicion that a military jet
had been really been lost, those area would have been crawling
with RAF personnel.

Heat-seeking equipment was used to scour every inch of the moors
- equipment which can pick out a man smoking a cigarette on the
ground, that is how sensitive it is (I have seen this equipment
in operation).

No signs of any wreckage were found - no signs of any fire
either.

When I arrived at the scene early on the morning of March 25 it
was clear from all the evidence given by the police, fire
fighters and mountain rescue that there was no possibility that
a crash site could have been overlooked.

None of the 500 plus team had seen any evidence of ground
activity by military personnel, other than the single RAF Sea
King (and that had been directed by civilians from the ground!).

When a privately owned Hawker Hunter jet crashed into that same
area of Peak District hole it left an enormous crater in the
peat and smoking debris scattered over hundreds of metres
(testimony from Brian Jones, senior Peak Park Ranger, January
1998)

This, Roy Hale, is the evidence. It is not necessary to produce
the names of every single RAF/NATO pilot who was flying that
night to "prove" they all returned safely. Only a fool or the
ignorant would continue to claim such nonsense in the wake of
expert evidence.

These are the facts which lay to rest once and for all the
claims made by ignorant people who have used the imaginary
deaths of others to promote their lurid fantasies.

But at the end of the day, the Northumberland Tornado crash
contains one interesting and significant detail which may be
relevant to the Howden Moors event.

Witnesses have told Press reporters how they saw a light
aircraft flying very low in the area seconds before the Tornado
jet came over.

Horse-rider Gale Brown, 37, said: "We get jets over all the
time, but the little passenger plane was like a stranger in the
camp. It looked like a ten-seater aircraft with windows down the
side."

Another witness, Jeremy Bolam, said: "It was not a fighter
plane, it looked like a small passenger jet. It definitely had
the RAF markings on it, though.

It flew over the village of Belsay and disappeared."

The RAF have so far denied that any other aircraft were in the area at the
time.

But drawing comparisons with the events of March 24, 1997, those
who have followed the case will remember that a number of people
in Sheffield reported seeing a low-flying aircraft with
unfamiliar lighting configurations just minutes after the
low-flying exercise by Tornadoes ended.

One of them, Police Special Constable Marie France Tattersfield,
told me:

"It was the weirdest thing I have ever seen..it was big and it
was well below the legal altitude for night-flying. All its
windows were lit up which made it look even more odd as no pilot
would fly blind at that time of night over these hills."

The Northumberland incident makes me suspect more than ever that
the aircraft which triggered the 999 calls to Sheffield police
on March 24, 1997, belonged to the RAF and had been involved
somehow in the low-flying exercise over the Peak which had
finished minutes before.

Max Burns was right about one thing - there has certainly been a
cover-up over this incident.

However, the cover-up did not conceal evidence of ETs, but
simply a clumsy training mission by the military.

Full background details about the Howden Moor case can be found
at:

www.pufori.org/articles/howden_moor/index_nf.htm

and

www.iun.org/index2.htm

All best wishes,

Dave Clarke

"The Skeptick doth neither affirm, neither denie any position;
but doubteth of it."

                                          - Sir Walter Raleigh