Talk:Helicopter prison escapes
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[edit] Right category?
Does this really qualify to be in the category Escapees, shouldn't that technically only be people who have escaped? Lokal Profil 19:11, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edits
Changed some of the prison names 13 June, 2006
[edit] Gartree Prison Escape
One notorious helicopter prison escape this article doesn't mention is that which took place at Gartree Prison - a maximum security prison located at Market Harborough, near Leicester in the United Kingdom. On 10 December 1987, two prisoners were sprung from Gartree's exercise yard with the aid of a hijacked Bell 206L helicopter. They were recaptured shortly afterwards, but the escape caused great controversy at the time. Interestingly, to date, Gartree remains the only British prison from which such an escape has been made, so it is possibly worthy of an inclusion.
[edit] References
- Article about the escape
- Article about Market Harborough in which the escape is mentioned
- British Civil Aviation in 1987
- House of Commons Hansard Debates for 12 April 1989
- British Society of Criminology report
10 January 2007
[edit] Added Details
Having received no response on this matter, I have decided to add the above information - with a few changes. I am not sure how to add references, though, so someone else will have to do this. Thanks 81.152.223.92 18:15, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] In Fiction
The Australian television series Prisoner Cell Block H staged one of the most daring prison helicopter escapes to be seen in fiction when one of the inmates, Marie Winter, escaped from the jail by hanging from the landing gear of a low flying helicopter. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.157.67.61 (talk) 12:08, 23 February 2007 (UTC).
