Air Crash
Western Avenue borders RAF Northolt in Uxbridge. On Tuesday 13 August 1996, in a very unusual accident, a Lear Jet landing at the airfield overshot the runway and ended up crashing into a van that just happened to be passing on the A40. Fortunately the van driver was not seriously injured although he was trapped for 40 minutes. It was later determined that the crash may have been caused when the Spanish pilot and co-pilot were having a disagreement over who should handle the landing. There was only one passenger on the Lear Jet, an actor called Lisa Hogan. She was slightly injured.
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