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Frankie Dettori opens up on the plane crash that nearly killed him 20 years ago

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Frankie Dettori has opened up on the plane crash that nearly killed him 20 years ago. Flat racing's three-time champion jockey was saved by his friend Ray Cochrane in the incident on June 1, 2000.

The plane nose-dived just after taking off from Newmarket Racecourse, killing pilot Patrick Mackey. Cochrane, who suffered minor burns, pulled Dettori from the wreckage through the aircraft's rear baggage hatch. “When I did come round after the crash and I was on the plane, I didn’t know if I was in the other side, in another world or in heaven," Dettori told the podcast. "My mate dragged me out the plane and the plane exploded… twenty years ago I should have been dead.” The crash happened just nine days before the premier race of the Flat

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