aircraft crash M25 essex - false alarm
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aircraft crash M25
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Eons ago I had a technician who came to us from USAF Photo School near Denver. He had a story that they took students out for a flight one day to practice with a continuous-strip camera. They asked the pilot to fly along the Denver-Boulder Turnpike. When they developed the film there were cars pulled off into the ditch all along the road. The pilot had flown the C-47 very low, maybe less than a couple of hundred feet off the deck.
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should take them about 3 hours in the rush hour, even with blues and 2's
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M25 and airstrips
We have a strip near J22 and apparently the emergency services get calls several times a week saying a plane has crashed! One day we will have a crash and nobody will come!
We welcome visitors but it is PPR as we need to brief about no fly zones so chuck me a PM if you want to come. 350 yds grass and a tree near the end of 23!
Sorry no tea either at the mo as the caravan burnt down!
We welcome visitors but it is PPR as we need to brief about no fly zones so chuck me a PM if you want to come. 350 yds grass and a tree near the end of 23!
Sorry no tea either at the mo as the caravan burnt down!
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Silly public
This seems to be yet another case of the general public seeing one thing and inferring another. It's one reason why crash investigators are trained to sift through the bull when talking to 'eye-witnesses'. I guess we all do it to some extent...
An example:
I was at my local flying club in the ops office and the phone rings and was answered (think it was the ops manager who picked it up). (some background: I fly from a smallish airfield with only GA. At the time a twin Otter was based there carrying out a Geological survey in the area which involves very low flying).
I only heard one side of the conversation, but it turned out to be the police who wanted to know if we had any twins in the air coz one had reported to have come down near such and such. (can you see where this is going?) The bod at my end explained that there was a twin conducting low level passes and was he sure the reported plane was down or just at very low level. The plod on the other end was adamant that the report was of it crashed in a field.
Of course there was no 'plane down, it was just our local friendly Otter doing its stuff. I don't blame PC plod; he was just following up on a report that he'd been given. But how can Joe Public confuse low flying with "crashed in a field"??
Apparently these sort of phone calls happened quite a few times when the Otter was based here.
What people (including pilots on occasion) see and what they believe they see are sometimes two very different things!
Cheers,
DB
An example:
I was at my local flying club in the ops office and the phone rings and was answered (think it was the ops manager who picked it up). (some background: I fly from a smallish airfield with only GA. At the time a twin Otter was based there carrying out a Geological survey in the area which involves very low flying).
I only heard one side of the conversation, but it turned out to be the police who wanted to know if we had any twins in the air coz one had reported to have come down near such and such. (can you see where this is going?) The bod at my end explained that there was a twin conducting low level passes and was he sure the reported plane was down or just at very low level. The plod on the other end was adamant that the report was of it crashed in a field.
Of course there was no 'plane down, it was just our local friendly Otter doing its stuff. I don't blame PC plod; he was just following up on a report that he'd been given. But how can Joe Public confuse low flying with "crashed in a field"??
Apparently these sort of phone calls happened quite a few times when the Otter was based here.What people (including pilots on occasion) see and what they believe they see are sometimes two very different things!
Cheers,
DB
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Panjandrum, the strip you are talking of is Gerpins Farm, inside the M25 near Aveley, and right next door, like 1.5 miles away is Damyns hall. Please avoid overflying these strips under 1500' unless landing!
