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Sergeant Philip 'Taff' Jones was on board a Sea King Mk 4 which crashed in the sea while ferrying elite soldiers between the flagship HMS Hermes and the warship HMS Intrepid in May 1982
Cpl Aston on operations in Northern Ireland, before joining the SAS An SAS soldier who survived the greatest disaster in the legendary regiment's history has told the horrifying story of what happened for the first time. Twenty SAS men were killed on a dark, bitterly cold night 39 years ago when a Sea King helicopter crammed with troops and equipment plunged into the South Atlantic. In the chaos that ensued as it sank and the desperate soldiers had to swim under water to escape - but only nine made it out, including Corporal Mark Aston, now aged 72. Survivors then had to cling to a lift raft ...