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Hi Folks IM from Adrigoole Dunmore and I remember well the plane crash landing At the time a lovely Summer evening My brother and I were so involved on putting a steering wheel on a bicycle that we took no haeed of the noise of the plane and our mother shouting Eventully we looked out of the 2nd floor of the Mill we owned just in time to see a plane moving from loeft to right just at eye level If Burkes house was any higher the chemney was gone That got us out of the milllIt flew Nth West for a while and it appeared to be dumping something out of the Plane It  later transpired that the were dumpine nflamable liquid in readiness for a crash landing It cyrcled our house about 3 times and then landed in Burkes field right beside our house We took off across Burkes field to get to the plane Father and mother shouting to get back but at the same time still running themselves I remember getting into the ploane to meet 3 helmetted ETs As they blessed themselves I figured we were safe when they got off the plane t5he field was full of people WE were pushed aside by a Garda and that was a clo0se as we were to getto the plane ever again They were from EQuador and experienced mechanicl trouble on their way to London They had flown UP along the west coast from Shannon were they could not land because of Fog They were looking for a lonf level field and eventually settled for Burkes field in Lissybroder They were lucky when thay touched down The under carriage hid a big submerged Rock the3 effect of this was to slow the plsane down otherwise the woud have overshot the field and gone across the main roan The field was ideal for asuch a landing as it was long wide and on a good gradient After4 all of that the Army came to protect the site and possibly us The plkane was dismantled and taken to Ballykelly Air field near Derry It was the talk of the Parish They had to uproot ESB poles along the rooute and spent a day almost goint around Flemings Corner in the Square in Dunmore The Tuam Herald shoiuld have some pictures of the event