Re: Light Aircraft Strikes Fin on Cable During PFL
This also happened a few years ago at AST, Perth. Instructor was "show-boating" at low-level on a Trial Lesson (!), failed to see a telephone cable, struck it damaging the windscreen, wing root and wrapping a bit of cable round the elevator. He landed at a disused airfield by the Tay, removed the offending piece of wire, got airborne and returned to Perth claiming he had "hit something" but didn't know what it was!
There was no evidence left of the cable, so no-one was able to prove what he'd hit. He was however "done" by the CAA for landing at an unlicenced airfield on an instructional flight, with fairly severe consequences.
Sounds like almost an exact copy of this event, hope the outcome is the same. Idiot.