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Bottom post of the previous page:

Suggestion:

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The fatal accident of Michael Whitehead, at Mallory Park in 1965:
PTRACER wrote: 8 years ago Michael Whitehead, Mallory Park, 1965 fatal crash posted by Aerogi:
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/cp ... _White.jpg
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Jesper Hvid wrote: 6 years ago There was another pic of the fatal accident of Michael Whitehead, slightly different from the existing one:

http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/whiteheadmalloryfatal.jpg

This case is still not on mmorg.
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I don't assume we have submitted this one, yet?
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Additional into re: Whitehead.

Accident location on track: "Devil's Elbow" (final turn before finishing line).
Age: 22 (at time of accident, means born in 1942 or -3).
Lived in Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Vehicle number 17.
Died from head injuries at Leicester Royal Infirmary on unknown date.
Photographer David Hudson for tabloid Daily Sketch, 29 March, 1965.
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Not much to add to this one, but there's nothing in the notes:

http://motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=6573
http://motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=6574

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Gives age of victims (different spelling of one surname), and circumstances of accident. They crashed 200 metres down a ravine. They don't even fall that far off of K2. Pretty horrible. I'll send this to Nanni for whatever it's worth.
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Jesper Hvid wrote: 6 years ago ---

Suggestion for LWF-inclusion, where similar cases are listed:

Click to enlarge (2nd with article):

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Fatal helicopter-accident in 1984 at Ahvenisto (SF), which happened during the running of an MC race. Mentioned here, also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahvenisto_Race_Circuit
In May 1984, what remains today the most severe helicopter accident in the history of Finland occurred at the track during a race. The pilot lost control of his helicopter while landing and crashed into an audience area, resulting in five spectators dead and 26 injured.[4]


Link in footnote unfortunately dead.

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Details:

Date of accident May 6, 1984.

4 or 5 people killed, 2 women, one man, one boy (9yo), and one unknown. Possibly, one victim died later from burns.

Pilot (who survived) lost control whilst landing, due to gust of wind. Apparently, after or at the end of some sort of display, held simultaneously with race.

Race called off after accident, rest of event cancelled.

Location: Hämeenlinna or Tavastehus (Swedish name), Finland.

This accident remains the worst involving a helicopter, in the history of Finnish aviation.

My newspaper source: Danish newspaper Aarhuus* Stiftstidende, May 7, 1984 pp. 1-2.

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* = Not a typo, Århus was spelled Aarhuus, in the old-fashioned way.
Was already in there, the related case section is also subdivided.

http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus ... q=a&n=1534
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www.motorsportmemorial.org seems to be offline.
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hollie3sa wrote: 6 years ago www.motorsportmemorial.org seems to be offline.
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It does not alter in the least the moral obligation of the person ultimately in charge of this site to ensure its stability.

PTRACER, is there a way to secure this entire database, as you did formula2.net?

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Jesper Hvid wrote: 6 years ago It does not alter in the least the moral obligation of the person ultimately in charge of this site to ensure its stability.

PTRACER, is there a way to secure this entire database, as you did formula2.net?

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Shouldn't we ask him to give us the whole database?
We could "incorporate" Motorsportmemorial.org to The-Fastlane, should it go off-line forever.
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PTRACER wrote: 6 years ago
Jesper Hvid wrote: 6 years ago It does not alter in the least the moral obligation of the person ultimately in charge of this site to ensure its stability.

PTRACER, is there a way to secure this entire database, as you did formula2.net?

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Sadly not.
It's copy & paste then?
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It's crucial we a dialogue with Sal over this, the sooner the better. I'll formulate something soon.

Meanwhile, Michael Whitehead's crash at Mallory Park has been added:

http://motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=12205
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hollie3sa wrote: 6 years ago
PTRACER wrote: 6 years ago
Jesper Hvid wrote: 6 years ago It does not alter in the least the moral obligation of the person ultimately in charge of this site to ensure its stability.

PTRACER, is there a way to secure this entire database, as you did formula2.net?

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Sadly not.
It's copy & paste then?
Yes. I'm afraid with everything going on in my life currently, I wouldn't have time to get involved with it myself. If Sal wants to hand over the database and website files I will host them, but beyond that...
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Fair enough, the main thing is he doesn't let it slip away, and I don't imagine he will, but things untoward may happen to the best of us, and there probably is no back-up of this. We need direct communication with Sal. I'll set up something.
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The Danish fatal rallysprint accident yesterday has been submitted by me, via private mail, as I now get a 403-error when submitting cases via the research form!

Will gather all visual media and post in relevant topic.
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