Comment on the BBC report:
"Robin Tudor from the airfield, also known as City Airport Manchester, said: "Moments after the aircraft took off from the airfield, we had a mayday call from the pilot to say he had engine failure. "We expected the plane to head back to the airfield but it came down several hundreds yards away in a garden."
Not too sure who Robin Tudor is, but a turn back to the airfield from the height they must have been at to end up in Brookhouse Estate would have been suicidal - loooks to me like they did an extremely good job in finding a space to put it in!