Ottaway Susan - Fire over Heathrow: the tragedy of flight 712

Dambuster A Life of Guy Gibson VC 1994

She Who Dared (with Jackie George) 1999

Violette Szabo the Life that I Have 2002

Hitlers Traitors 2003

Fly With The Stars (co-author Ian Ottaway) 2007

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Jane Harrisons parents, Lena and Alan aged approximately twenty-three and twenty-four. Lena Harrison is holding her nephew, Patrick Worthington. (via Patrick Worthington)

Jane Harrison (right) with her sister Sue. (via Sue Buck)

A happy day out Jane and Sue with their cousins. Back row, L to R: Patrick, Alan and Robin. Front row, L to R: Martin, Jane, Sue and Carol. (via Patrick Worthington)

Jane, third from left, was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her school friend Sheila Turton to John Walkington in 1964. (via Sheila Walkington)

Jane on a beach in San Francisco while working as a nanny. (via Sue Buck)

Jane with Jeffrey Allende, the little boy she was employed to care for, while in San Francisco. (via Sue Buck)

Captain Cliff Taylor, who made a brilliant emergency landing in the burning 707, Whisky Echo, on 8 April 1968. (via Mrs Audrey Taylor)

Stewardesses Jennifer Suares and Rosalind Unwin. (via Andrew McCarthy)

Some more of Whisky Echos cabin crew. L to R: Bryan Taylor, Andrew McCarthy and Jennifer Suares. Neville Davis-Gordon is behind Miss Suares. (via Andrew McCarthy)

Shirley and Brian Cooper with their children (L to R) Kevin, Jacqueline and Andrew at Heathrow airport just before they boarded Whisky Echo to emigrate to Perth, Australia. (via Shirley Cooper)

Boeing 707 Whisky Echo in its old livery. The two over-wing exits are beneath the O and A of BOAC. The rear exit, below and slightly left of the 707 on the fuselage, was where Jane Harrison pushed out the passengers that she saved. ( Peter R. Keating via John Wegg)

Whisky Echos port wing on fire. The photo was taken by passenger Richard Hamond from inside the cabin as the aircraft was returning to Heathrow. ( Richard Hamond)

Whisky Echo on fire with its number 2 engine (circled) falling into the gravel pit in the village of Thorpe.

Whisky Echo after landing on runway 05R at Heathrow. The column of smoke could be seen ten miles away.

The stub of the port wing of Whisky Echo from which the number 2 engine fell. Two firemen pull a hand line into position to fight the fire.

Police at the scene of the accident. This photo was taken at the moment that an explosion blasted a huge hole in the top of the fuselage and is likely to have been caused by the aircrafts emergency oxygen supply igniting.

While the aircraft burns a fireman tries, in vain, to enter the cabin via a ladder at the forward port door. The firemen were not able to get onboard until after the fire had been extinguished because they did not have any protective clothing and the intense heat made it impossible. The chute at the passenger door is still inflated. (via John Hutchinson)