Pilot fined over falling concrete

[littco]

Sorry if it's been covered before

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...ne/7140972.stm


A pilot has been fined £1,000 after a concrete block fell from his plane and landed near children playing tennis.
The one-foot square slab landed in the car park of the Northumberland Lawn Tennis Club in Jesmond, Newcastle, during a flight on 9 May.

Alan Gibson of Harpenden, in Hertfordshire, admitted failing to carry out a pre-flight check correctly at Gosforth Magistrates' Court.

He was also ordered to pay £715 costs. The block was used to anchor planes.

The block fell from a four-seater Piper Cherokee light aircraft which had just left Newcastle Airport.

The Civil Aviation Authority and Northumbria Police brought the case to court.

[Saab Dastard]

The original event was covered here:

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...light=concrete

I just noticed the story beside "Pilot fined over falling concrete" is " Northern Rock drops from FTSE 100"

How appropriate!

SD

[DFC]

Now where is that debate we had about doing pre-flight inspections?

Regards,

DFC

[BackPacker]

DFC, I though the debate was about whether a one-foot-square slab of concrete was enough to keep an airplane on the ground in strong wind...?