Reality
I was on my way to work at RSRS at Slough down where the reservoirs were near London Airport under the flight path, when I noticed a plane in difficulties it was stalled and the engines were cutting in and out and it was falling towards the road in front of me.
I think I reversed out of its path.
So I stopped an expecting a fireball I closed the window and called 999 and described the disaster as it was occurring and turned the engine off.
The plane sank down and bellied on to the field on my right and burst open, people ran out and I could see the billowing outline of a gas cloud bursting out from the airliner and the people running, some fall over and on ran back to help, one man made it to some trees near me and came to the car but I had only one door and the fireball had ignited near the aircraft and was enveloping the billowing cloud of aviation fuel.
All were consumed and the fire wrapped round my car. I had turned the engine off..
I saw people outside so I unlocked the doors, there were only two.
People scrambled in.
I looked round and there was an air hostess sitting beside me and three men were in the back, they must have climbed in through the door just in time. The Pilot and the co-pilot and the engineer were the men.
I took my flask of coffee and we shared the drink between us.
The cause was the pilot's heart attack and the inexperience of the co-pilot, possible sheer strength of the pilot in terminal pain. (That was the news)
The police turned up and thought we were terrorists and drew his gun, "I'm the hostess" she said, "I crashed" I said, "Where there any survivors?". "there are four" "here" "sitting beside me in the car" "where are you going?", "UKAE" I said "where is that?" "round here" I said. The hostess said "don't shoot - he saved my life" I watched in horror the hostess took a round to the head and fell dead beside me and all the survivors were shot dead by this policeman who went berserk because we were not helping. I was hospitalised. I suppose he thought we were site seers. I think he was shot himself too. However I was very confused and cannot be sure what happened.
I remember turning as the policeman put his head in car and pointed his gun at the pilot "I'm the pilot" he said, "you don't say" said the policeman the pilot tried to protect his chest with his hands sort of crossing them as if to push the bullet away. He then fell back he said "oh".
I think the police strafed the other cars with machine gun fire because they heard gunfire and I suppose because of the job I did and the emergency I was wearing body armour but I can't remember.
We survived because we were in the car and recovering from shock.
The pilot said the crash was catastrophic mechanical failure.
I had a problem recalling my atomic bomb when I eventually returned to work.
I feel sick.
Chris.