Some emotive comments from the public as usual.
These planes should be banned. What is the point of flying them. Waste of fuel and not very green. either. They fly around making annoying noise all day long, just so some rich-kid can have a jolly taking pics of his house. Waste of time, they serve no purpose other than to annoy everyone on a pleasant summer day out.
There could have been a family in that field having a picnic or a nice walk could have been ruined by this plane. Any plane over ten years old are death traps and shouldn't be allowed to fly. Time and time again we read of 'engine failure' it's never pilot error is it, no, a plane runs out of fuel on it's own, the driver should look to see if there is fuel in it before going out and annoying everyone and putting lives at risk everytime they fly their old Cessnas or Pipers.
Ban them all. No point in taking off from an airport, flying around for an hour then returning (if your lucky) for what purpose? A waste of valuable resourses, EG fuel that we need to preserve for the future.
Looks like the majority of us are flying death traps then.
And this from one Jeremy Prune.....hmmm
someone we know maybe
The following has been issued by the AIB to ensure the newspaper reporting of this crash is up to the usual standard: The pilot was on a routine flight when he felt a loss of power. He observed that the propeller was barely turning. Whilst he selected a suitable landing site he opened the canopy and got his passenger to handswing the propeller to attempt a restart. Unfortunately the passenger was not tall enough. Therefore the pilot landed the aircraft in the first available field after the hospital, school and retirement home.