Originally Posted by
alphanumeric
mattew harding, steve holditch, G-LBAL, A109 mourne mountains, pete barnes, etc. and many more. it seems this kind of thing will keep happening
and how many other accidents almost occur?
I've seen a helicopter flying slowly along the M4 in fog and fine drizzle, about 200 to 300 metres visibility, about 5 feet higher than one row of lampposts and below the height of the trees and central line of lampposts. Then it got came down to lamppost height as the trees were lower.
Fortunately it was the opposite side of the road from two phone masts near where I was standing, but I wonder how high it had just crossed a road overbridge.
It then turned to follow a road that joined at the junction, and carried on out of my view towards where it would have a choice of either straight on over industrial estates and housing, or crossing the road to avoid these and instead worry about crossing a line of electricity pylons and cable (if it would see them).
Fortunately there was no accident in the local news a few days later.