Incident in Dorking?
 

All very odd.

Dorking was effectively closed to traffic from sometime before 4pm today. Emergency services seeming to be concentrated about a mile West.

Three independant sources say that a light aircraft 'was forced to land'. My take is 'forced landing'. No other news on here or BBC.

Was it perhaps an excercise?

Stuck in traffic, as I was, I had plenty of time to ask myself if it was a good afternoon for a light aircraft? As contacttower has also done I see.

BBC News - Light aircraft crashes in Surrey

Well it's upside down in a field. Any one you walk away from ...

Tks for that. Didn't come up in the 'local beeb nooz'.

Hope it was slow before the pitchpole.

G-BSPM

Diesel, PA28-161 Warrior 2, Bournemouth based


ASN Aircraft accident 05-NOV-2010 Piper PA-28-161 Warrior II G-BSPM



Piper PA-28-161 Warrior II

And in happier times
Aircraft G-BSPM, 1981 Piper PIPER PA-28-161 C/N 28-8116046

FADEC fade...?

Oh, no you're not.

I'm glad the occupants weren't seriously injured but I think it might be quite a while before the aircraft is back in action.

If you look it up on G-INFO, I think that you'll find that it's a Thielert engined PA-28 with one of those splendidly reliable diesel motors with reduction gears...

It might have been clutch failure not the first time it has happened on these engines, are the AAIB investergating it? Who does the maintenance on the aircraft?

Latest news report with photos.......

www.getsurrey.co.uk/news

G-BSPM
 

I flew G-BSPM a couple of weeks ago at Fairoaks for differences training (I like the practicalities of the FADEC system, but the engine felt underpowered compared to the standard Warrior offering, although noticeably quieter and less thirsty) - I'm really pleased both the occupants are okay, I hope it won't put them off flying!