The Channel Islands Air Search plane, Lion’s Pride, Islander G-CIAS has crash landed in Jersey.
The alarm was raised at 7.15pm this evening. All five crew on board are reportedly safe and well after the plane came down in the Parish of St Mary to the North of the Island.
It is understood to have been out on an emergency call assisting the RNLI searching for two people missing at sea when the aircraft got into trouble. Emergency services have described conditions at the crash site as “horrendous”.
By: mike currill - 15th November 2013 at 22:17
It would be far too easy to say “that will never happen to me” but we are all human and as such none of us holds a monopoly on making mistakes. I know I shouldn’t speculate but this sounds like a classic case of not doing periodic FREDA checks.
By: EN830 - 15th November 2013 at 20:14
AAIB initial report on the crash landing of Islander G-CIAS seems to indicate fuel starvation due to the aircraft’s tip tanks running dry and the crew not switching to the main tanks.
By: Newforest - 4th November 2013 at 13:29
By: EN830 - 4th November 2013 at 13:02
You don’t get a perspective of how lucky these guys were, without seeing the whole picture. No power, landing in the dark and down hill. Credit to their airmanship ! [ATTACH=CONFIG]222637[/ATTACH]
By: Newforest - 4th November 2013 at 07:58
A flying photo and report from the Telegraph.
By: EN830 - 3rd November 2013 at 21:28
Confirmed crew OK, first reasonable image of the aircraft from the Jersey Evening Post
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By: Propstrike - 3rd November 2013 at 21:11
From PPRuNe
”News coming in……
The Channel Islands Air search BN2 has force landed in a field in St.Mary’s Jersey due to engine failure, all believed OK.
If this is correct it’s amazing as it was dark and the weather is driving rain with a southerly gale blowing and the fields in Jersey aren’t very large!!! ”
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/526972-cias-bn2-force-landing.html
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November 3, 2013 at 8:39 pm