Aberdeen plane down
 

Appears to be a plane down in Aberdeenshire, lots of emergency attendance, any one know more?

A light aircraft has landed in a field in Aberdeenshire.
The aircraft touched down in a field near Stonehaven at about 16:00 on Wednesday afternoon.
It is understood the pilot was safe.
BBC News - Light aircraft lands in field near Stonehaven

From STV:
A spokesman for Police Scotland said: "A twin engine light aircraft has made an emergency landing with one male onboard."
A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said the pilot is "complaining of a sore back."
Around 40 firefighters from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service are in attendance.

Picture on twitter - it seems to be a US-registered light twin which has put down in a ploughed field.

Looks like a Navajo to me, good result pilot walking away. :D

UA

Definetly a PA31 piston twin. Looks like he pulled off a good wheels up dead stick job, one Stb blade seems not bent . Must have lost both donks, bit unusual. Shouldn`t this be on another forum.

From what I have seen recently it is in exactly the right place..............

No matter what happened that has to be a good result

Short field landing?

Well done that man!

Aye, that's a few thoosand poonds o' prime malting barley that'll need to be payed...... You don't want to go tramping on an Aberdeenshire farmers freshly sown park.:p

Ferry flight from USA to France I believe..

Emergency plane landing in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, field leaves pilot injured | Mail Online

Flown by the ginger headed one per chance? He has the necessary form.

Great reporting...SINGLE SEATER, all of those windows are just for show!
Morons...
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Texture of the field looks a bit rough for it to have been seeded. One of the pics on the DM story has a bit of another field in the foreground which looks much smoother.

Did the ginger one run out of fuel once more?

As much as I'm utterly fed up with poor journalistic standards nowadays, is it not often par for the course to remove all the seats to reduce weight and free up space for ferry tanks on such trips?

UA

Contaminated fuel by any chance ?
What was the last departure point ?

"As firefighters battle to put out the blaze" nice one.

Believe I saw somewhere that it had departed Wick en route France, would make sense as a stopping point for such a ferry trip. Suspect he ran into problems and was trying to divert to Aberdeen. Vectors for the 34 ILS would send him round Stonehaven way.

Regards

UA

Yes, out of Wick.
You can pretty much guarantee his tanks would have been full if the fuel man there gets his way. (As he normally does)

But the fuel is trucked up from the London, often in tankers used for petrol stations. I'd also look at the lab paperwork too, very closely. ;)

Then again he might only have stopped at Wick for a pee....