Crashed Aircraft Rescue Drill (1946)

Unissued, Unused material. Crashed aircraft rescue demonstration. Newmarket, Suffolk. MS a crashed Lancaster bomber on fire. Various shots rescue squads trying to get into bomber, they climb onto wing and force open windscreen of pilot s cockpit. CU as airman climbs out of top of plane, various shots as they lift pilot out and onto wing. MS as rescuer breaks midgunner s turret with hammer. CU as rescuers lift wounded gunner from cockpit. CU breaking glass of rear gunner s cockpit. CU s escape panels on plane. CU crashed plane with engine smoking and burning. CU s various escape panels on plane. CU as firemen hack at sides of plane with hatchets. CU as firemen tear away part of side of plane, seen from inside. CU photograph with diagrams etc. for instructional purposes. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VIS