I was 14 at the time of this crash. My father worked on the engineering side for BEA and although we lived in Yateley at the time all my relatives lived in London.

I remember passing the crash site very soon after the crash on our way to visit relatives in SE4 and it looked so obscene and frightening just lying in the field by the side of the A30. I think my father was quite upset by it although he didn't say much.

--Graham

I was also 14 yrs old at the time and was playing near a restauraunt called the Crooked Billet and saw the aircraft come down. Since then I flew on the Trident many times and it was a great aircraft.

--mike shaw

I was seven at the time of the Trident crash at Staines and was in my parents car returning from London. We got stuck in the traffic jam around 5. 30 and in those days we did not have a radio in the car so were initially ignorant of the crash, we assumed there had been a motor accident. We soon learnt from other drivers that it was a plane crash, so my father did a U turn and made another way home. My uncle worked for BEA Cargo at the time and new Captain John Collins who was on the jump seat of the Trident directly behind Captain Key as he was flying out to Brussels to collect a BEA Vanguard freighter. He boarded the Trident at the last minute. Captain Collins lived in my home town Woking.

The Staines crash never left my mind and since then have always remembered it every June 18th as this is my wife's birthday too! I pass the crash site reqularly and wish that there was a memorial erected to this accident which made Cockpit Voice Recorders (CVR's) mandatory in all British airliners and remains to this day Britains worst air accident.

--Andrew Lee