Light plane crash near doncaster?
 

just heard on the radio, a plane is down near the m18 doncaster area
any heard anymore info?

thanks man, hope to get more info soon, hope no1 is hurt

2 people are feared dead, im based at sheffield city, i hope that info is wrong.thoughts are with the persons involved

I heard it exploded on impact.....

Based at Sheffield City too - not good news :sad:

oh no!! gonna have to make some phone calls!

Based on the local TV news, abeam M18 adj junction for Rotherham.

So just East of the Ravenfield heli site.

The BBC are reporting on "eyewitness reports" of circling over Maltby & then a sharp descent.

I flew over the crash site about 2hrs ago - and spoke to R in the tower, it wasnt talking to sheffield or doncaster.....

the field was next to the ravenfield heli site and look perfectly suitable for a PFL IMHO.

So, spiral dive whilst taking photos or aero's not sure.....

hmmm ye there aint a shortage of fields around there anyways, maybe a stall and hard impact trying to stretch the glide :( very sad news

how long for AAIB report?

Looking at the picture on the BBC site, it looks like the aircraft came to rest inverted?

ye it does, i dont know how long it takes the aaib to produce a report.Hopefully i may be able to get more info from some of the guyz at sheff city

The TV pictures looked ploughed, + quite a gradient North to South with a dip in the centre.

Was it based or a visitor?

I work at Sheffield, and it didn't seem to be anyone based there. Since it wasn't talking to either Doncaster or Sheffield, it was probably based elsewhere.

Initially I heard the same as Jinkster.....or did he tell me, I'm not sure? However, on the way home a couple of hours ago I listened to BBC Radio Sheffield, hoping for some more news. They said that it was a two seater light aircraft, that two people had been injured, but no-one taken to hospital. So it sounds like possibly better news than we initially thought, if they got it right. Apparently, eye witnesses saw the aircraft circle before it landed in a field, so - again if they got it right - it sounds like a forced landing, but under control. I hope this is the case anyway. Apparently one lane of the M18 was closed for a while, but traffic was moving slowly by the time I reached the area, though I don't go that way home and didn't see anything.

ye, hope its good news, thats the thing about the media they always seem to look on the worst side o things.

just seen it on itv

m0rt1L,

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/5287088.stm

condolences.

Well the news now seems accurate.
Very very sad day, thoughts are with friends and familys.

Sad news indeed. Hits you harder when it's round the corner to where you're based, at a spot you fly over almost every day. The M1/M18 junction will never look the same to me again.