the night a plane 'crashed' in the peak district and there was no plane (repost from a defunct yorkshire board)

lifting this from a local yorkshire forum that's since gone offline, original poster reckoned they were on one of the search teams. saving it here. this is the Howden Moor / Sheffield thing, March 24 1997, the moors on the South Yorks–Derbyshire line. OP's account, condensed: just after 10pm calls ……