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Old 12th Jan 2005, 04:33
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Tinstaafl
 
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One person has died.

They've just shown an overhead video showing the crash occuring.

From what I could see it looks like he was trying to land parallel to the road & on the golf course, or possibly on the road itself. His approach didn't seem to be aligned with the fairway associated with the green next to where he hit. His L wing appeared to ride along the top of the wires until impacting the concrete pole.

I live down the road from there. Where he first contacted the wires he'd long run out of golf course, so maybe it was a profound overshoot, not an undershoot as it appeared from the still images + the early news commentary saying he was flying from W --> E.

The flight direction in the video is the reverse: E --> W.



The road in the image runs ~ E-W, with N to the left of the road. The aircraft rests near the green. The associated fairway is aligned ~NE from the green so it didn't look like he was trying for the fairway.

Not in the right place at the right time, poor sods.

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