How We Escaped China Nightmare ; When They Set Off On Their Dream Holiday, Barry and Christine Jackson Had No Idea It Would End with Them Being Plucked by Helicopter From a Mountain in a Scene That Could Have Been From an Action Movie.

Western Daily Press › May 21, 2008

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When they set off on their dream holiday, Barry and Christine Jackson had no idea it would end with them being plucked by helicopter from a mountain in a scene that could have been from an action movie.

Yesterday, the relieved Herefordshire couple told how they had escaped from the jaws of death after being caught up in the devastating Chinese earthquake.

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How We Escaped China Nightmare ; When They Set Off On Their Dream Holiday, Barry and Christine Jackson Had No Idea It Would End with Them Being Plucked by Helicopter From a Mountain in a Scene That Could Have Been From an Action Movie.

The retired bank manager and his wife were among a party of Britons who clung to each other as the ground shook and the mountains started to crumble during a trip to the Wolong Nature Reserve, in Wenchuan county.

After three days living on a cramped coach, they were given five minutes to collect their passports and run towards a military heli...

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