Spitfire down in Kent
 

A couple of hours ago.
According to witnesses the engine started spluttering, pilot executed a forced landing in a field. Near Woodchurch.
Pilot ok.

Pictures on Kent On Line.

Sad but that rather justifies the insurance brokers with the premium for overflight of London.

Is that a two-seater, I can't quite make if out?

It looks like the 2 seater NL-R?

Good to hear there are no injuries, it is the two seat German one D-FMKN.

Up for sale http://www.platinumfighters.com/#!spitfire-mj772/cuwc

Looks like a textbook forced landing, glad pilot OK. Looks like a Tr 9 from the photo. Any idea which one?

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It had an undercarriage malfunction 3 years ago too.

@ Wander00 just follow the link in my post and it has the full history of the aircraft.

Very glad to hear that there were no injuries ...

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/736/c...9_lizking2.jpg

Image Credit : @Liztrispirit

Sadly I doubt she will be a Goodwood next week ...

Hmm, a certain irony there methinks - German" Spitfire in BoB Commemoration! Maybe there ought to be an Me 109out in front, and the Spit and Hurri pilots going"Dagga, daga" on the R/T......hat, coat...........
PS - ATC - many thanks

Thanks PN ... Amendment made :ok:

A bit of additional historic info ...

RAF Woodchurch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Woodchurch

Port wing torn off.

https://twitter.com/MrGeorgeFuller/s...335680/photo/1


Pilot rumoured to have been Rob Davies who had to bail out of the P-51 at Duxford a couple of years back....poor Rob must have been thinking oh no, not again :ooh:

That's what speed tape was made for ;)

S-D

I don't think it was torn but removed for transport by road, this picture in a German newspaper shows it intact.

http://ais.badische-zeitung.de/piece...1/59051761.jpg

Above the Clouds - Is that a picture from its earlier wheels up landing in Germany perhaps? That look like grass, the Kentish field shown in the pictures elsewhere looked to be stubble.


Biscuit

That's the earlier incident.
Today was indeed in a field recently combined.
And the port wing was removed at the root.
Expensive and lengthy repair...

biscuit74 I think you are correct, its had rather a run of bad luck in recent years.

A not entirely unknown problem for German owned aluminium.
There's still quite a bit of it in the ground here in Kent.

I must admit I didn't think Kent had such lovely hills. :}

Glad the pilot is ok. The plane can be fixed, shame though it is to see it like that.

That will buff out, no problem.

Glad all OK and it's not a write off.

Zee Jermanz don't know how to properly fix British hardware.
Or maybe they just sabotaged an enemy plane...:E

third forced landing during its lifetime after the war.
Don't think it'll get its asking price now (3.5 mil) :eek:

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Nutloose comment
 

...Priceless!:ok:

How apposite