Sun, Jul 18, 2004
RAF Tornado's buzz playground full of kids, farm park owners
furious
The British Defense Ministry has launched an investigation after
two Tornado fighter jets out of the RAF Leeming base buzzed some
fifty kids who were enjoying the day at Diana Gardner's Newbridge
Farm Park, near Hereford.
The fighters appeared to be on low-level target practice runs
when they buzzed the children's outing. According to Ms. Gardner,
the aircraft appeared to aim their flight paths right at the kids,
all under five years of age. The result, of course, was
pandemonium.
To make matters worse, just as the
children and the animals were recovering from the flyover, they
were buzzed by another jet flying behind the first one.
The park's owner was furious. “The planes seemed lower
than 250ft and made an appalling noise," said Ms. Gardner.
“It must have been clear to the pilots there was a large
number of children and animals on the ground. I understand the need
to train — but why over our park?”
The organizer of the outing for the kids, Ms. Rita Cornish,
stated that “We are used to seeing military aircraft flying
low but I have never known anything like this. It was as if we had
been targeted. The kids were screaming and animals were flying all
over the place.”
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence stated that they were
investigating the incident and added, “The farm is in an area
where aircraft are allowed to practise low flying at no less than
250ft above ground.”
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