Frances Castledine’s words to the man found lying in a fuel-soaked field near the remains of a crumpled passenger jet were soft and reassuring. “You’re OK. We’re looking after you. Everything will be sorted out.”
Frances gave him oxygen and splinted his broken legs at the site strewn with luggage. Her comforting voice, with a soft Irish lilt, was probably the last one that Melville Miller ever heard.
Melville was a passenger on the British European Airways flight 548 that crashed 50 years ago in Staines, Surrey, 150 seconds after taking off from Heathrow Airport, killing 118 people.
