Luckily only minor injuries – i’d love to see the size of the garden!
Aircraft crash-lands in a garden
Two men suffered only minor injuries when their light aircraft came down in a garden in Kent.
The Cessna 172 crash-landed shortly after take-off from Rochester Airport and landed in the garden of a house in Lyminge, Folkestone.Both men were taken to William Harvey Hospital after the incident on Saturday and treated for minor injuries.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has been informed but it is not known why the aircraft came down.
Emergency services went to the scene at the property off Stone Street, in Farthing Common.
A spokesman for Kent Police said the pilot was from Maidstone and the passenger from Cranbrook.
By: maffie - 27th February 2008 at 21:12
Looks like it wasn’t only apples being grown in the “Garden of England”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7267333.stm 🙂
Matt
By: Newforest - 27th February 2008 at 08:09
Puts a new twist on the expression of Kent being ‘the garden of England!’
By: mike currill - 27th February 2008 at 01:28
A good thing they have quite a large garden. If that had happened in my back garden it would have affected the gardens either side of me and the the gardens of the three houses that back on to us
By: Newforest - 26th February 2008 at 16:03
Prisoner on board!
Surveying his next job?:D
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/02/25/prisoner_involved_in_small_plane_crash/3116/
By: msteggalls - 26th February 2008 at 10:20
From the photos in the Daily Mail, looks like some very lucky people all round….
Martyn
By: Newforest - 24th February 2008 at 21:58
‘Pilot covered in blood’:dev2:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1306638,00.html
By: David Burke - 24th February 2008 at 21:17
Farthing Common is in the outskirts of Canterbury .
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February 24, 2008 at 7:39 pm