Police looking for crew after light aircraft crash
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Police looking for crew after light aircraft crash
BBC reporting no sign of crew after light aircraft made unscheduled landing near Cambridgeshire/Northamptonshire border.
The aeroplane was a Rans S6 Coyote, two-seater, single-engined aircraft, registration G-BVIN.
The aeroplane was a Rans S6 Coyote, two-seater, single-engined aircraft, registration G-BVIN.
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Owner from Bedford, Flying a Microlight. Hundreds of Microlights overfly my house on the Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire border. flying out of Sandy.
With that info it does not sound very suspicious.
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With that info it does not sound very suspicious.
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Could it be this one ? http://www.littlegransden.flyer.co.uk/pfa/mstott.htm
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Sort of reminds me of one of my midnight shifts when the police department calls me and ask me if I'm missing any aircraft, being the ever watchful controller that I am, I respond, "NO", why do you ask. The officer then tells me that they found a C172 that had crashed in the middle of a corn field that was completely demolished. I asked if there was anyone still in the airplane, and he said "NO", that when they discovered the wreckage that no one was in or around the crashed airplane.
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Is it THAT Mike Stott?
When someone parked my plane in a field (Carb icing), there were enough calls from locals to get 3 helos and 14 fire engines out. Only made the INSIDE pages of the local rag. Driver has buggered off to get a trailer by the time the first fire tender arrived.
"Mystery surrounds aircraft crash"
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"Mystery surrounds aircraft crash"
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Two of my mates ran out of lift in their glider a couple of weeks ago. They popped it, totally undamaged (as usual) into a field up near Husbands Bosworth, saw the farmer, phoned for their trailer and stretched out in the sun next to the glider to wait.
Next thing, sound of helicopter plus heavy breathing. Opened eyes to find out of breath policeman who had run across the field from his car, plus police helicopter hovering overhead.
Apparently a 999 call had been received "an aircraft has crashed into a field and two people are lying next to it"
Oh dear. Do we need a "negative 999" number to ring to say "there hasn't been an accident"?
Next thing, sound of helicopter plus heavy breathing. Opened eyes to find out of breath policeman who had run across the field from his car, plus police helicopter hovering overhead.
Apparently a 999 call had been received "an aircraft has crashed into a field and two people are lying next to it"
Oh dear. Do we need a "negative 999" number to ring to say "there hasn't been an accident"?
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When I flew from Booker it was quite normal for the local police to get regular calls from 'helpful' members of the public driving up the M40 saying glider/ aircraft has 'crashed' into field. The airfield is adjacent to the M40 and sometimes the approach is over it.
The police would call us and when we asked if the reports had been near junction 4, it was always the case. It always took some convincing to assure them that all the fleet were accounted for.
The police would call us and when we asked if the reports had been near junction 4, it was always the case. It always took some convincing to assure them that all the fleet were accounted for.
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am surprised that the BBC think that the Air Accident Investigation Branch is part of the CAA.
Oh dear. Do we need a "negative 999" number to ring to say "there hasn't been an accident"?
I believe after one, albeit serious, accident at the Biggin Hill Air Fair the emergency services took over 300 calls from mobile phone users in the crowd. Do these people not think that robust procedures are in place?
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What p*sses me off is the BBC publishing the aircraft reg. in the report. If there was a motorway pileup, would they publish the licence plates of the cars involved ? I don't think so. 
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Slightly of thread but as a point of interest I had a pilot talking to me on Lon Info last week who reported an a/c down in a field with no signs of people or habitation anywhere near. He thought it unusual but was afraid that his report might "start something of".
Position, type and colour of a/c was passed on to D&D who said they appreciated the info and logged it. As they said it could save a lot of time and expense later if that a/c is reported overdue at his intended dest.
Slightly of thread but as a point of interest I had a pilot talking to me on Lon Info last week who reported an a/c down in a field with no signs of people or habitation anywhere near. He thought it unusual but was afraid that his report might "start something of".
Position, type and colour of a/c was passed on to D&D who said they appreciated the info and logged it. As they said it could save a lot of time and expense later if that a/c is reported overdue at his intended dest.