aircraft crash M25 essex - false alarm

[daz211]

sky news reporting that a aircraft has crashed next to M25
in essex no more update as yet

[lc_aerobatics]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/5295944.stm
joke

[Yak97]

Would that be somebody seeing an aircraft making an approach at Stapleford?

[Tigerdriver2006]

A false alarm, thank goodness:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/5295944.stm

[lc_aerobatics]

Would that be somebody seeing an aircraft making an approach at Stapleford?


:ugh: Or someone having fun at low level

[seacue]

Eons ago I had a technician who came to us from USAF Photo School near Denver. He had a story that they took students out for a flight one day to practice with a continuous-strip camera. They asked the pilot to fly along the Denver-Boulder Turnpike. When they developed the film there were cars pulled off into the ditch all along the road. The pilot had flown the C-47 very low, maybe less than a couple of hundred feet off the deck.

[matspart3]

There's a strip just north of J28...saw a Yak of some sorts landing there a few years back..

[tangovictor]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/5295944.stm
joke

also a joke fire crews from " Brentford " rushing to Essex, LOL via the M25
should take them about 3 hours in the rush hour, even with blues and 2's

[panjandrum]

Mats Part 3
I believe that is Jenkins Farm, which is recently home to Saxon Microlight(s?).
Thats south of the M25 between J28 & J27 though.

[jayc004]

sky news reporting that a aircraft has crashed next to M25
in essex no more update as yet

Most certianly nothing here.......saw all the fire engines come in, and then leave fairly quickly!!

[Kit d'Rection KG]

...the fire brigade say 'lights and bells' not 'blues and twos'.

[Spitoon]

Something to do with ability to count????

Only joking, honest.

[tangovictor]

...the fire brigade say 'lights and bells' not 'blues and twos'.

oh, i thought bells went out with the ark ?

[bigflyingrob]

We have a strip near J22 and apparently the emergency services get calls several times a week saying a plane has crashed! One day we will have a crash and nobody will come!
We welcome visitors but it is PPR as we need to brief about no fly zones so chuck me a PM if you want to come. 350 yds grass and a tree near the end of 23!
Sorry no tea either at the mo as the caravan burnt down!

[Darth_Bovine]

This seems to be yet another case of the general public seeing one thing and inferring another. It's one reason why crash investigators are trained to sift through the bull when talking to 'eye-witnesses'. I guess we all do it to some extent...

An example:
I was at my local flying club in the ops office and the phone rings and was answered (think it was the ops manager who picked it up). (some background: I fly from a smallish airfield with only GA. At the time a twin Otter was based there carrying out a Geological survey in the area which involves very low flying).

I only heard one side of the conversation, but it turned out to be the police who wanted to know if we had any twins in the air coz one had reported to have come down near such and such. (can you see where this is going?) The bod at my end explained that there was a twin conducting low level passes and was he sure the reported plane was down or just at very low level. The plod on the other end was adamant that the report was of it crashed in a field.

Of course there was no 'plane down, it was just our local friendly Otter doing its stuff. I don't blame PC plod; he was just following up on a report that he'd been given. But how can Joe Public confuse low flying with "crashed in a field"?? := Apparently these sort of phone calls happened quite a few times when the Otter was based here.

What people (including pilots on occasion) see and what they believe they see are sometimes two very different things! :ugh:

Cheers,
DB

[pistongone]

Panjandrum, the strip you are talking of is Gerpins Farm, inside the M25 near Aveley, and right next door, like 1.5 miles away is Damyns hall. Please avoid overflying these strips under 1500' unless landing!