Helicopter Crash 21/12/05 Perthshire, Scotland- More Information wanted
Can anyone help me with some more information about the pilot who died in the above accident? He is reported in the various on-line news reports I have found as (Robert) Philip Ward aged 48 of Glasgow. I am trying to find out if he is a guy who was a friend of mine at University in Adelaide, South Australia, in the 1970s. He was about the right age.
I am in the process of organising a family trip to the USA for later this year. Last I heard, my friend Philip (Phil) Ward was working as a helicopter pilot in St Louis, Missouri in the USA. I thought I would try and track him down so we could visit him when we are in the USA. For want of any better options to locate him, I put "Philip Ward helicopter" into Google and to my horror, lots of news stories about the helicopter crash in Scotland came up. I have been unable to find a photograph so I don't know if the pilot who died in the horrible accident was my friend, Phil.
What I can remember of him was he was English, born about 1957, and his full name was (I think) Robert Philip Glover Ward. He worked for a year in 1976 as a tutor in the Boarding House at Prince Alfred College here in Adelaide, before starting at Adelaide University in 1977, where he lived at Lincoln College for a couple of years.
Can anyone help? There are quite a few people in Adelaide who grew very fond of Phil when he was here and would like to know.
I joined this forum to ask this question-after hours trying to find the answer by other means; I thought someone reading the forum might know the answer- or know someone who does. Please help!
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