Yesterday I was up on a training flight from my home base, Göteborg - Säve airport (ESGP). Coming home in the evening I saw the news that a plane having taken off from the same place a couple hours before I did had gone missing over the sea; small pieces of wreckage had been spotted. The pilot is missing.
By now I know that it's an Ikarus C42 that I have seen in the air a great number of times, shared the pattern with during many training flights, that shared the same hangar as our club's planes, and that I flew in once as a passenger...
Last time I saw it in the air was during my first solo flight the other day; it took off just after I did. Landing after my flight yesterday I saw them preparing the local SAR helicopter for flight, but I had no idea of the reason, or that there even
was a reason other than regular training...
We read and hear about accidents all the time... But it does come a lot closer when it's a plane you've seen so many times, and even flown in.
Feel really sorry for the pilot's family, and also for his club members... Must be terrible.