> %%steve%%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) gurgled happily, sounding much like
> they were saying:
>

>>>>> The highest death toll air accident (before the Lockerbie bombing)
>>>>> in the UK caused no deaths on the ground.

>

>>>> Hmm which one was that? The Kegworth crash or Stockport?

>

>>> The Staines crash was the largest air crash on British soil before
>>> Lockerbie. 118 dead, but none on the ground.

>

>> I'd forgotten about that one.

>
> Just having a rummage through
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> List_of_accidents_and_incidents_on_commercial_airliners
>
> Excluding September 11th, there appears to have been a total of 267
> people killed on the ground in 23 separate incidents. In the _entire_
> history of commercial aviation...