Rescue Out Of The Blue - Air Disasters

Record ID: 119862
  • Title: Rescue Out Of The Blue - Air Disasters
  • Date: 6th May 1996
  • Summary: PROG 4: OUT OF THE BLUE Looks at how the role of the public has changed with specific reference to two airline disasters. In 1972 a BEA Trident with 112 passengers crashed at Staines near Heathrow - but rescue efforts, such as they were were hampered by the behaviour of the public. People flocked to the scene, lining the embankment and snarling up traffic for miles around. Rescuers realised that even if there had been many survivors they would have found it extremely difficult to get them to hospital for treatment because of the traffic congestion created by the ghouls who came to gawp in 1989 when a Boeing 737 crashed along a stretch of the M1, passing motorists stopped and clambered down to the aid of the 79 survivors, even before the emergency services arrived to extinguish the flames.
  • Description:MOVING ACCOUNTS OF PAST AND PRESENT RESCUES TRACE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMERGENCY SERVICES.
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Mentorn Media Ltd.
  • Programme Episode:Episode 4
  • Transmission Date:06/05/1996
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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