Today's news of Maurice, who has had his third engine failure in the same number of flights, from Sam Rutherford via a Facebook paste:
Maurice is safe! We heard he had an engine failure and landed (not at an airfield) in South Sudan but had a puncture on landing. He’s fine, we think the plane also. Locals found him and called a Brit in Juba they recently worked for. He contacted the British embassy in Juba.
Jay Sata has asked elsewhere on PPrune if Maurice Kirk should be recognised for an award for his flying exploits. My response, as Chairman of The Air League awards committee was that a suitable nomination should be written and sent for consideration to :Air League/HCAP/RAeS/RAeC/LAA. He probably could qualify for thr LAA Will Wadhams Trophy for navigation as long as flight planning, airmanship and aircraft maintenance are not factors! But then as he operates under the auspices of the LAA, that might not be an issue!
Last edited by terry holloway; 26th Nov 2016 at 08:09.