Aircraft crash!

Built in 1974. CofA expiry was on 11/04/2006.

Pic of G-BGED, “The Sky Diva”:

A caller on the news said it looked like a vintage aircraft, was it a modern cessna?

RIP To the people who passed away and sorry to the family and freinds, they must be so upset.

Sad news indeed.

R.I.P all that died.

Some sad news to hear that another one of the passengers has passed away.

The reg of the Cessna was G-BGED.

I said to my freind who doesn’t really know about planes that a plane had crashed and about 3-4 people were dead, she said “I’m sure if a plane did crash more poeple would have died”, I should have said a little plane.

Parachut plane by the looks of it. Could work out the reg. but I think its a parachute plane. Not quite sure what happened, but my guess is that the pilot believed he could make it to Dunkeswell, only to have an engine failure when he was quite low and then didnt have much choice in terms of fields for landings. It looked like he had hit a tree head on, but it could be that it just flipped on its front due to the bad surface. The aircraft was situated about 10 feet from a set of trees.

Now 4 dead…
Thoughts with friends and families.

I learn at Dunkeswell, will go up and find out more if I can tomorrow. They say its none of our pilots, however, we dont often get many visitors. Weather wasnt brilliant up here either.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3844993.stm – Link to the story.

Skynews is reporting that the aircraft was a Cessna 210, and it was on a Parachuting flight.

Three die in light aircraft crash

Three people have been taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital
Three people have been killed and three others seriously injured in a light aircraft crash in Devon.
The Cessna light aircraft crashed shortly after 1800 BST on Sunday at Luppitt Woods near Beacon Village just outside Honiton.

The three injured people have been taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital, one by air ambulance.

Witnesses said the plane appeared to be heading back to a nearby airfield as its engine spluttered.

Broken

Moments before the crash it flew low over a nearby house before making the final three miles back to Dunkeswell Airfield.

The plane almost broke in half as it crash landed and ended up with its nose buried in the ground and the middle of its fuselage broken.

Retired police officer Eric Franklin, 66, saw the plane come low over his house at Pound Farm, Beacon, but did not realise it had crashed until he heard fire engines racing to the scene.

He said: “I did not actually see it come down but it had come over my house with the engine spluttering and I thought at the time that it would be lucky to make it to Dunkeswell.

“The engine sounded very rough but it was still going and it flew over the hill going towards the airfield.

“As it went over I realised I could not hear the engine any more but I did not know if it had cut out or whether the hill was blocking out the sound.

“I did not hear the crash and there was no explosion or fire. I have been to see the crash site and the plane is nose down in an inverted V. Its back has been broken.

“Forced landing”

“I could not tell whether it had somersaulted but it looked as if the pilot had tried to put it down in the field and it had crashed while making a forced landing.

“It was not extraordinarily low when it came over my house but the sound of the engine was very noticeable.”

The Devon School of Flying, based at Dunkeswell, said none of its aircraft or pilots are involved.

The airfield, built for the United States Navy in the war, is used by a lot of private fliers and is particularly popular with parachutists

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3844993.stm