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Lancaster Bomber
A couple driving in Derbyshire were left "speechless" and after seeing a "ghost plane" fly over their car.

Richard Jephson, 52 and his wife, Helen, were out in their car in Rowsley at around 2.30pm on Monday August 3.

Richard, a business advisor, said: "We were approaching a retail outlet and started slowing down to turn.

"My wife saw it first, she shouted 'what the hell's that?'.

"I looked over and I could see a big plane, it looked like a Lancaster bomber, flying incredibly low - if it was any lower, it would have landed."

"My car window was open and this plane was so low that you could touch it - but it was completely silent.

"It then flew across us, and near some trees - Helen shouted 'it's going to crash', we sort of braced ourselves for a crash but nothing happened."

The couple arrived back at home to look online to see if anybody else had seen it.

Richard said: "When we got in and turned on our television, the news was on saying that the last surviving Dambuster pilot had died - I said to Helen 'perhaps it was an enthusiast paying their respects', and Helen said 'perhaps it was him'.

"It just left me speechless."