Light Airplane Down in Barton

[3bars]

Anyone got any info?

Apparently crashed into a house shortly after Takeoff

[Bbow]

Barton, as in Barton north of Luton?

[Professorrah]

Barton

Airfield is here

Manchester Barton Airfield

[halwise]

Completely unconfirmed but this is R&N,

Colleague at work has just had a call from his Girl friend
who lives on the estate. 2 Occupants in light plane.
edit
Not as serious as related to me but here's the details:-
as per MEN
Manchester Evening News
NFN

[reverserunlocked]

Surely this worthy of R&N if true? Missing a bus, hitting a building - pretty major story to be buried in Private Flying?

[cats_five]

What an astonishing photo.

The plane fits so neatly between the garden wall and the house wall. It's not made the BBC News website yet, so far as I can tell.

[worrab]

BBC:

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Manchester | Light aircraft crashes in garden

[IO540]

From the BBC story:

Two men have avoided serious injury

Jesus these journos are sooo sharp. They should all get jobs in the AAIB; we would get great accident analyses same day. Really clever how they also did an autopsy on the occupants and arrived at that brilliant conclusion.

I am so pleased that things have moved on from the usual "could have crashed near a convent".

Full marks for journalism I would say.....

[flyingtincan]

"could have crashed near a convent".
According to the paper it didn't crash it " plummeted"

[worrab]

...Reported "Collided"

Think it was a minor RTA...

Police were called to Brookhouse Avenue to a report a small plane had collided with a garden wall.

[Squealing Pig]

Barton management insists on no turns below 500ft after take-off, fine on all runways except 09. Professional mangment would say turn ASAP on that runway as there really is noware to go but the managment at Barton have never been professional more interested in having a power trip rather than thinking about a power failure.

[airborne_artist]

Looking at the pics on the MEN - amazing. PIC should enter a few spot landing comps, I think

[bartonflyer]

Comment on the BBC report:

"Robin Tudor from the airfield, also known as City Airport Manchester, said: "Moments after the aircraft took off from the airfield, we had a mayday call from the pilot to say he had engine failure. "We expected the plane to head back to the airfield but it came down several hundreds yards away in a garden."



Not too sure who Robin Tudor is, but a turn back to the airfield from the height they must have been at to end up in Brookhouse Estate would have been suicidal - loooks to me like they did an extremely good job in finding a space to put it in!

[tyler_durden]

squealing pig - if aircraft turn below 500 feet on 09 they will go straight through the helicopter circuit

[gpn01]

Originally Posted by bartonflyer

Comment on the BBC report:

"Robin Tudor from the airfield, also known as City Airport Manchester, said: "Moments after the aircraft took off from the airfield, we had a mayday call from the pilot to say he had engine failure. "We expected the plane to head back to the airfield but it came down several hundreds yards away in a garden."

Not too sure who Robin Tudor is, but a turn back to the airfield from the height they must have been at to end up in Brookhouse Estate would have been suicidal - loooks to me like they did an extremely good job in finding a space to put it in!

Would that be the same Robin Tudor who's PR Director of Peel Holdings, who now own Barton by any chance?

Not convinced that they 'found' the space....looks more like the space found them!

[Squealing Pig]

tyler_durden - Why does a helicopter need to fly a circuit any how?

[MartinCh]

S Pig,
are you joking? The choppers just 'materialise' at the H spot/apron?
When they depart, they just disappear in puff of smoke, right?

[bartonflyer]

If Robin Tudor is the PR director then perhaps someone ought to explain to him the dangers of a low level turn back to the airfield with no engine on the now aborted climb out!

Is PR short for "PRattish Comments" ?

[Dogwatch]

I was one of the emergency responders to this incident yesterday.
Suffice to say that both persons onboard were lucky to say the least.

I often see these small aircraft taking off and landing at Barton and on many occasions wonder if things could go wrong, yesterday was one of a few such incidents there.

[englishal]

A testament to these new gen microlights...Had it been a C152 they'd probably both be dead....

If my engine failed I'd turn straight through the helo circuit unless it was obvious that I was going to hit one.