Aircraft down in Highlands - pilot safe
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Aircraft down in Highlands - pilot safe
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Crash pilot has 'minor injuries'
A pilot has escaped with minor injuries after his light aircraft crashed in the Cairngorms, police have said.
The Cessna - which was flying from Inverness to Newcastle - came down near Mount Keen, five miles from Ballater.
An RAF helicopter will fly mountain rescue teams as close to the crash site as possible in the bad weather.
The Austrian pilot, who called rescue services in Vienna to raise the alarm, has now spoken to the rescue centre at RAF Kinloss on his mobile phone.
Helicopter approach
A spokesman for Grampian Police said: "He had been told the mountain rescue team was on its way and was sitting by his aircraft in his orange dinghy.
"When he hears the approach of the helicopter he plans to set off his flares.
"We can confirm that the pilot has suffered only minor injuries."
Members of the Braemar Mountain Rescue Team will be involved in the operation.
Crash pilot has 'minor injuries'
A pilot has escaped with minor injuries after his light aircraft crashed in the Cairngorms, police have said.
The Cessna - which was flying from Inverness to Newcastle - came down near Mount Keen, five miles from Ballater.
An RAF helicopter will fly mountain rescue teams as close to the crash site as possible in the bad weather.
The Austrian pilot, who called rescue services in Vienna to raise the alarm, has now spoken to the rescue centre at RAF Kinloss on his mobile phone.
Helicopter approach
A spokesman for Grampian Police said: "He had been told the mountain rescue team was on its way and was sitting by his aircraft in his orange dinghy.
"When he hears the approach of the helicopter he plans to set off his flares.
"We can confirm that the pilot has suffered only minor injuries."
Members of the Braemar Mountain Rescue Team will be involved in the operation.
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Seems he has now been rescued 
Quick work .. and hopefully he is now having a dram to toast his luck
Quick work .. and hopefully he is now having a dram to toast his luck
Rescue team reaches crash pilot
Mountain rescue teams have found a pilot who escaped with minor injuries after his light aircraft crashed in the Cairngorms, police said.
The Cessna - which was flying from Inverness to Newcastle - came down near Mount Keen, five miles from Ballater.
An RAF helicopter flew mountain rescue teams as close to the crash site as possible in the bad weather.
Grampian Police said the pilot was found by members of Braemar Mountain Rescue Team at about 1415 BST.
Arrangements are being made to take him to the helicopter so he can be transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
The Austrian pilot initially called rescue services in Vienna to raise the alarm on Thursday.
They put the call through to the RAF in Farnborough, before it finally got through to the rescue centre at RAF Kinloss.
A spokesman for Grampian Police said: "We can confirm that the pilot has suffered only minor injuries."
Mountain rescue teams have found a pilot who escaped with minor injuries after his light aircraft crashed in the Cairngorms, police said.
The Cessna - which was flying from Inverness to Newcastle - came down near Mount Keen, five miles from Ballater.
An RAF helicopter flew mountain rescue teams as close to the crash site as possible in the bad weather.
Grampian Police said the pilot was found by members of Braemar Mountain Rescue Team at about 1415 BST.
Arrangements are being made to take him to the helicopter so he can be transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
The Austrian pilot initially called rescue services in Vienna to raise the alarm on Thursday.
They put the call through to the RAF in Farnborough, before it finally got through to the rescue centre at RAF Kinloss.
A spokesman for Grampian Police said: "We can confirm that the pilot has suffered only minor injuries."
! Lucky chap (or fairly unlucky looking at it another way).
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Pardon me for pointing out the bleeding obvious, but what the hell was he doing calling rescue services in Vienna, thousands of miles away?? Surely it would have made much more sense to put out a Mayday on his way down, or even to call 999 when on the ground.
That phone call must have been great fun!
"Hallo, Austrian Rescue? You dont know me ich think, but I vos hoping you could rescue me??"
"Keine problem mein freunde, ill send the helicopters straight away. Vere are you by ze vay?"
"Somevere in sodding Scotland"
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That phone call must have been great fun!
"Hallo, Austrian Rescue? You dont know me ich think, but I vos hoping you could rescue me??"
"Keine problem mein freunde, ill send the helicopters straight away. Vere are you by ze vay?"
"Somevere in sodding Scotland"
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the local paper reports that he had problems with the weather - suddenly changed and went into cloud
The 'sudden' change was forecast on the F215 which should have been available to the pilot. CLD ON HILLS, MOD ICE AND MOD TURB IN CLD
also OCNL low vis and RA/DZ was forecast.
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What is the best thing to do if one gets themselves into this situation i.e. Increasing terrain and decreasing cloud base. A precautionary powered landing in a field would probably be best, but I'm sure many a pilot would rather "fly" their way out of it I guess?
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Won't find too many fields over the highlands I'm afraid old boy!
And why is that all you sassanachs are convinced that imediately when one passes north of the border there is a line of snow, rain, freezing temperatures etc...what a load of old bollocks, along the same lines that cos we live in Scotland we must of course wear Kilts, play the bagpipies, eat haggis and live in hill crofts! The weather is just as often crap in England as it is hear.
The pilot was Austrian, the plane American, the mountain that the two met is Scottish (British)
End of rant!
And why is that all you sassanachs are convinced that imediately when one passes north of the border there is a line of snow, rain, freezing temperatures etc...what a load of old bollocks, along the same lines that cos we live in Scotland we must of course wear Kilts, play the bagpipies, eat haggis and live in hill crofts! The weather is just as often crap in England as it is hear.
The pilot was Austrian, the plane American, the mountain that the two met is Scottish (British)
End of rant!
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To see oursels as others see us
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An' foolish notion
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us
An' ev'n Devotion