I've never felt inclined to register for PPRune before, but this one incident has pushed me over the edge.
Some of the posts on this thread have been pure conjecture, but many, many replies have hit the nail right on the head - this guy was an accident waiting to happen.
Just to put the record straight for those who somehow got it wrong - 'Biggles' did not do a go-around at Dundee - the closest he got was the tree 3nm from the airfield.
If I ever fouled up so badly that I found myself flying an aircraft with so little fuel in the tanks (below min useable by all accounts) I would be conserving enough height to reach an airfield - especially if that involved flying over a built up area to get there.
I'm beginning to wonder if he was already gliding, deadstick, and not wanting to let on. Why else allow yourself to get so low over a city?
Caird Park is well inside the city boundaries - therefore within the built-up area in my book. There are lots of housing schemes to the north of where he crashed.
It would probably have been a good idea to declare an emergency when running virtually on fumes, apparently he didn't do that either.
The Mayday only came when the engine stopped.
A little birdy tells me that the call went something like, "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday I've run out of fuel!"
Now he claims he didn't run out.
The long list of problems with this pilot and this one flight will be keeping someone very busy for some time. I hope they do something about him - by that I mean more than just a tap on the wrist and a bit of advice, which seems to be the norm for the few who operate in this manner.