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missing light a/c
Search for crashed aircraft pilot
A light aircraft flying from Reykjavik in Iceland to Wick in the north of Scotland has crashed into the sea.
The Royal Air Force said the Piper Cherokee came down in a storm 100 miles south of Iceland. A Nimrod search and rescue aircraft from RAF Kinloss in Moray and Icelandic rescue services are looking for the pilot. The RAF said weather conditions were severe with heavy thunderstorms and a 20ft swell.
A light aircraft flying from Reykjavik in Iceland to Wick in the north of Scotland has crashed into the sea.
The Royal Air Force said the Piper Cherokee came down in a storm 100 miles south of Iceland. A Nimrod search and rescue aircraft from RAF Kinloss in Moray and Icelandic rescue services are looking for the pilot. The RAF said weather conditions were severe with heavy thunderstorms and a 20ft swell.
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New aircraft on ferry flight suffered severe icing conditions at fl110 and went down.
The aircraft was tanked so if he's lucky enough to make a decent ditching the poor guy may well get crushed by the tank.
I do hope the outcome is better than the 310 last week though, here's hoping.
Poor bugger.
The aircraft was tanked so if he's lucky enough to make a decent ditching the poor guy may well get crushed by the tank.
I do hope the outcome is better than the 310 last week though, here's hoping.
Poor bugger.
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Been iced in a pa28, its not funny. 2 minutes in cloud and I had nearly a quarter inch of ice on the wings, and some on the prop too, heavy and hard to fly.
Hope he is OK
Hope he is OK
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Shame really, this guy had been holding back due to weather and still got caught out.
0C isotherm as low as 1000'
OVC CU SC and Mod ice starting as low as 2000'
Flying towards the back end of a front with CB and +TSRAGS
I hope he's OK, though its pretty darn unlikely. I feel sorry for the poor SAR sods out in a Puma and the fixed wings looking for him.
