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Sirpad
09-02-2003, 05:45 PM
there are some weird, vague rummors - but the fact is that sometime in the middle of 1987, a civilian airliner landed in RAF Mildenhall airbase. Onboard were over 200 arab-speaking civilians, all severely injured: gunshot wounds, severed limbs, etc.
The PJs on alert were te first ones to get to the plane and evntually were the only ones to handle the scene. No local civilian emergency services were involved.

This info comes from an interview with a jewish ex-PJ emigrated to israel and joined IAF's CSAR unit 669.
because of the irregular conditions, he says, the PJs had to work on the wounded for 12 hours with interpreters, to understand what they say (none of the passengers spoke english).

So - if anyone knows anything, i would like to get some more info on this one.

Argyll
09-02-2003, 06:42 PM
strange one that?
Care to elaborate a bit more if you can?
This may have been 1986,when the PLO were ordered out of Lebanon,as I seem to remember the same thing happen in Cyprus,security was as tight as a ducks ass,as it was roumered that 300+ PLO terroists were being allowed to stopover in Akrotiri,as I seem to remember there was a Brit with the PLO at the time,I'm a bit vague on it all now,it was nearly 20 years ago!!