Small plane crashes near M1 motorway in Nottinghamshire
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Small plane crashes near M1 motorway in Nottinghamshire
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I'm not normally one to bash post-accident threads, as there's always plenty to be learnt even in the early stages of a discussion, but seriously guys think twice before you post a reg just hours after the accident, it really doesn't help when the media are a bunch of hyenas that will jump on anything.
Nottinghamshire plane crash leaves pilot and his wife dead near M1 | Mail Online
So because of one reg post, which may not even be correct, various companies are now getting hassled by the media for no good reason.
Nottinghamshire plane crash leaves pilot and his wife dead near M1 | Mail Online
Pilots wrote online that they believed the plane was a 42-year-old Cessna owned by the Merlin Flying Club, which operates out of Hucknall Airfield.
The small airfield is less than a mile from the M1 between junctions 26 and 27, near the crash site.
A representative of the airfield declined to comment on the crash and told MailOnline all enquiries should be directed to Rolls-Royce, which owns the airfield.
Rolls-Royce did not immediately return requests for comment.
The small airfield is less than a mile from the M1 between junctions 26 and 27, near the crash site.
A representative of the airfield declined to comment on the crash and told MailOnline all enquiries should be directed to Rolls-Royce, which owns the airfield.
Rolls-Royce did not immediately return requests for comment.
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I've not seen any where the reg was particularly clear, and I know it's mostly the Daily Mail being terrible and directly quoting from this site as if it's an official source, just saying there's no need to go into too much detail on a very public forum where you may well be quoted as a source until more official information has been released.
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I found the reg in 2 minutes yesterday. You can see the first 4 characters in the photos, and G-INFO makes it very easy to search from a partial reg. The only other aircraft in the UK beginning with G-YII is a helicopter, so it doesn't take a lot of deduction to work out the last character - especially as that aircraft is registered to Merlin Flying Club who are based at Hucknall airfield.
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Well, like I said I'm not normally one to bash it, just it's not often you see the DM directly quote "pilots online", and when they then start hassling people at the airport over it then it can't be good.
Surprised at the complete lack of speculation on this one though, certainly looks an unusual wreckage with the tail stuck right in the air like that, as the witnesses have said he must of nose dived the last bit, will be interesting to see what comes of the investigation.
Surprised at the complete lack of speculation on this one though, certainly looks an unusual wreckage with the tail stuck right in the air like that, as the witnesses have said he must of nose dived the last bit, will be interesting to see what comes of the investigation.
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Every picture tells a story.
This one seems to suggest there was no fire despite a pretty serious looking impact.
Common sense says should it turn out on examination that there was little fuel around then one thinks 'was the engine running?' - Usually the type of prop bending is good evidence or otherwise of this.
If the engine turns out not to be running then understanding about force landing issues leads to the next consideration.
And so on.
This one seems to suggest there was no fire despite a pretty serious looking impact.
Common sense says should it turn out on examination that there was little fuel around then one thinks 'was the engine running?' - Usually the type of prop bending is good evidence or otherwise of this.
If the engine turns out not to be running then understanding about force landing issues leads to the next consideration.
And so on.
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Crumpled rear fuselage and what appears to be shortened forward fuselage and near-vertical stance indicate a steep highish energy arrival, so nose-over during forced landing unlikely. But with so few clues I wouldn't rule anything in or out at this stage.
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The first news story I saw here in California was the BBC and the tail number was clearly visible.
In the same picture there are wires - maybe a forced landing and were unlucky in catching the wires tipping the nose down? (Speculation based on Iphone viewed photo!)
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In the same picture there are wires - maybe a forced landing and were unlucky in catching the wires tipping the nose down? (Speculation based on Iphone viewed photo!)
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In the same picture there are wires - maybe a forced landing and were unlucky in catching the wires tipping the nose down?
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How do they do it?
The Mail Online's heading reads
In the following article they say:
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Pilot and his wife dead after their light aeroplane 'drops from the sky' near M1
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A police spokesman said: 'Two men have died after a plane in which they were travelling came down in a field near the M1 at around 1.30pm today.
