"Airport public relations manager Cassie Harwood-Munton confirmed last night that the pilot had supposed to be practising landings and had hit the ground during one of these maneouvres. When questioned as to why an aircraft like this with an amateur pilot was allowed to fly near built up areas and perilously close to holiday jets, full of hundreds of passengers she said:
“We have no choice, the CAA allows this to happen. We have been lobbying for years to ban these activities near airports. But there is nothing we can do. Next time hundreds could be killed,” she said."
wouldn't it be better to ban the hordes of holiday travellers, and the holiday jets who put them through a cramped seating, and create more misery ?? Instead of banning the ameteur pilots - who will end up flying the holiday jets, once they obtain their CPL ?
For all the interest I have in Aviation, I can figure out how a two seater can kill a hundred or more ..
Coat, umbrella, now running for cover ..
