I just been to have a look at the plane. Its a Pa34 Seneca G-OMAR. Its still in one piece. Just heard the pilot, Donald Campbel, a surgeon from east sussex, explain he was having trouble and was going strait in to the airport. Looks like he was trying to land on Rwy 25. He was "trying to avoid landing on the railway line as the 3rd rail(electric one) would have caused a fire and he was trying to land on the embankment next to it". The plane clipped a tree and then it looks like it clipped the roof of the house and ended up in the garden about 20ft away from the narrow embankment right side up. He is very lucky to escape with just cuts and bruises. The people who owned the house had just left to go and pick a child up from the local school. Hats off to him for bringing it down where he did, an excellent bit of flying by him. Its a well built up area full of old terraced houses and he clipped the roof of the end one next to the line. The trains were stopped while bits of the tree were picked up off the line and the airport was open shortly after.
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Its not the fall that kills you...Its the sudden stop.....