Jamie Hull

I noticed my first alert, if you were looking at a left-hand canopy window, saw a thin streak of visible yellow-orange flame.

I'd looked and looked again.

I thought, shit, this is what I think it is.

I've got to get this aircraft down.

The only option I had was to try to shut the aircraft down, steer it in and then set myself up for exit, which is exactly what I did next.

As it breached, as I turned into wind, I looked down at my feet on the rudder pedal and I could see the flames starting to lap around my feet and my ankles.

There was a switch in my mind, you know, cognitively speaking.

It went from like abject anger to the most hideous grief imaginable.

And I bought this round the world ticket, sort of 19 to 20 years of age when I actually left.

And I'd saved up a load of money.

It was about 6,000 pounds, which was probably two to one on the dollar back then.

So he's probably talking 12,000 Australian dollars in 1995.

That was quite a lot of cash.

And I actually went to Africa and mostly Australasia on that trip.

I mean, I spent just over a year of my life down under and I flew into Perth.

And I sort of went across the Nullarbor from Perth to Adelaide.

But I went all around Australia.

I worked in the north as a diver.

I joined a unit, a group called the Thames Valley Police, which occupies the west side of

London, predominantly.