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The crashed Sabre at Mayfield in 1963<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sabre-crash-12-11-1963-4.jpg\")
The crashed Sabre at Mayfield in 1963<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sabre-crash-12-11-1963-13.jpg\")
Edythe Tillitzki, whose house at Sunnyside Street was hit<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sabre-crash-12-11-1963-23.jpg\")
The crashed Sabre at Mayfield in 1963<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n\nThe next Sabre smash came three years later, when Pilot Officer Warren Goddard\u2019s fighter exploded over the Newcastle suburb of The Junction in the early evening of Tuesday, August 16, 1966. He had been taking part in night flying exercises and disaster struck as he entered cloud at about 7500 feet.
The doomed fighter was seen diving steeply towards the city, skimming three-storey flat buildings in Darby Street, Cooks Hill, before exploding. Witnesses described the explosion as \u201clike a giant firecracker\u201d. Pieces of aircraft crashed through roofs and walls of houses as residents prepared their dinners. A blazing wing section, with wheel attached, landed near a house in Union Street. A Kenrick Street resident, Mr K. Johnstone, saw part of the jet come down in his backyard, shattering his garage and destroying his 1956 V8 Ford Customline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/junction-sabre-crash-2.jpg\")
Aerial view of The Junction after the 1966 crash\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n\nA Glebe Road resident, standing in the kitchen of a two-storey house, saw a large section of the Sabre land in the backyard. The resulting fire destroyed the house. Three people were taken to hospital, two with shock and one – 30-year-old Darryl Witenden – suffered a chest injury from a piece of aircraft wreckage that hit him when he walked out of a nearby pub. He felt a blow from “something really hard”, then walked back into the pub and asked for a brandy. “Next thing I knew I was in hospital,” he said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pilot Officer Goddard, 30, from Perth, was found dead, hanging in the cords of his parachute in a house at 60 Glebe Road. The occupants of the house had just stepped out for an ice cream in a nearby shop, and the pilot fell directly onto the chair where the house’s owner, Mrs Irene “Mona” Bradley, had been sitting to watch television just minutes before. <\/p>\n\n\n\nAnother lucky escape was experienced by 33-year-old waterside worker Keith Johnstone, whose Kenrick Street home backed onto that of Mrs Bradley. He’d not long come home, had parked his car in his garage, gone inside and was going back out again when the jet ploughed into his car just 25m from where he was standing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Brickocski family home at 59 Glebe Road was extensively damaged, and numerous other buildings were hit by wreckage and damaged by resulting fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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After the 1966 Sabre crash at The Junction<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/502-Junction-Sabre-crash-35.jpg\")
After the 1966 Sabre crash at The Junction<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/502-Junction-Sabre-crash-13.jpg\")
After the 1966 Sabre crash at The Junction<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/502-Junction-Sabre-crash-8.jpg\")
After the 1966 Sabre crash at The Junction<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sabre-1966-18.jpg\")
After the 1966 Sabre crash at The Junction<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/flaming-wing-1.jpg\")
After the 1966 Sabre crash at The Junction<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sabre-1966-4.jpg\")
This Ford was wrecked by the crash<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/chute-and-ceiling-5.jpg\")
The remains of the pilot’s parachute in Mona Bradley’s house at 60 Glebe Road.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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