Cessna Down near Ingleborough
 

The Westmoreland Gazette reports that a Cessna out of Blackpool crashed near Ingleborough last evening (21st March.) Minor injuries to two occupants.

a little more here.....

BBC News - Two injured in North Yorkshire light plane crash

Couple of pictures, aircraft G-BJKY

Looking at pics and time to find the gents, they were very lucky !!!

Taken Link off, not sure if it was mine causing probs, Sorry !!

That's one hell of an escape. I've never seen such a badly mangled wreck from which anyone survived.

Sir George Cayley

I can't understand how they survived it looks like the entire engine bay is folded under the fuse, one broken leg?? unbelievable!

poor buggers probably had some serious hypothermia, i can't imagine it was a warm night.

Question, a night flight in IMC above terrain = pleasure flight??? err :confused:

CFIT in IMC, at night, in a 152 with no GPS - I'm just astonished that they survived....:eek:

How do you know there was no GPS? I think I may have flown that aircraft a year or so ago but I can't remember if it had GPS or not. I'm also amazed that they got out of that. It was pretty cold up here last night and it will have been even colder on the top of Ingleborough.

A forumite over on the...er....light side was involved, and has posted a brief summary of the events.

Very glad he's able to do so.

No GPS fit in that A/C.

Thanks EH.
VIRUS WARNING!
I tried the Westmorland Gazette link and had AVG screaming blue murder about viruses and Trojans, five of which had been dumped on my computer. AVG dealt with them. I have since run a virus check and my computer is now clear.

yes, me too. Norton to the rescue. I think the virus will infect you if you actually click on the "OK" on screen warning. Best use your own independent scanner.

DX - no idea about the Westmorland Gazette - I'm a Daily Telegraph chap myself.

Was referring to the 'Light aircraft from Blackpool down in Yorkshire' thread over on the Flyer Forums.

I have had some nasties emerge from the adverts over there, but I thought they had sorted that months ago.

I've sent a message to the Mods explaining the problem and asking them if they would be kind enough to remove the link.
EH, there is a link to the Westmorland Gazette in one of the early posts. I clicked on it and, as I said, had AVG screaming blue murder. Another PPRuNer has also had the same problem.
I had a look at "T'other Side" thanks. :ok: The problem was here on PPRuNe not over there.

Hmmm! Should have got an aircraft with better equipment!!!

Wonder if the guilt is twinging yet?

What goes around comes around!

Its easy coming out with cocky comments from a nice cozy ATC environment !!!!

Ah...understand now!

could somebody PM the link to the flyer forums, i'd really like to understand why somebody would conduct a flight like this.

Thanx

What's the deal with all this "there-is-a-post-on-the-forum-that-cannot-be-named" joke?
The forum is the Flyer one, the link is the one posted by flybymike. I don't think the mods here have a problem with cross-forum linking, as I don't suppose the Flyer's mods have a problem with people there linking to PPRuNe.

One day it's "pancaking-on-trees-is-fun" Vince that tells his story on here. Next time it's "GPS-is-for-wimps-Real-men-do-CFITs" KNT that comes clean on Flyer. Stories like these must be shared.

Calm down dear. You'll see I cited the source in a subsequent post.

Frankly, poor old KNT appears to be getting more of a kicking over there from certain parties than I would expect even here on Pprune even on a particularly brusque day.

I wrote the following on t'other side :E but it bears repeating here.
For those of you unfamiliar with the area, Ingleton is 10.7 miles (statute) NW of Settle by road and Ingleborough itself approximately 2.5 statute miles NE of Ingleton. As you can see, the distances are small and, at night, there is a lack of illuminated areas up there. In spite of its popularity with walker, cavers, climbers and potholers once you leave the town area it is a very bleak, remote place. They were lucky to get a signal for the mobile phone.
Ingleborough Summit is 724m ASL
I'm just glad they have survived physically relatively unscathed.