Just been reported on BBC News Website:
By: Dave Wilson - 16th July 2012 at 22:40
It has RNAV/GNSS as well.
By: John Green - 12th July 2012 at 16:36
It has an NDB/DME only.
By: John Green - 11th July 2012 at 13:33
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Tuck1940
Yes, possibly, I hadn’t thought of that. Although I don’t think Shoreham has an ILS. I though that it was a touch bizarre – but then, I’m a simple soul.
John Green
By: Tuck1940 - 9th July 2012 at 20:02
John maybe he was doing Instrument approaches ?
By: AlanR - 8th July 2012 at 21:52
A very “vulgarized” version if anything…
In what respect ?
After all, it’s an accident report, not an obituary
By: John Green - 8th July 2012 at 21:50
I don’t know whether this has any implication for this incident; I record only what I witnessed. I was with my wife at Shoreham on Wed. last 4th July. After visiting Transair, we went to the airport cafe for tea.
The airfield was not busy. An a/c that looked like a Diamond Twin Star was positioned at the hold on the tarmac runway which is oriented roughly North/South.
This aircraft took-off and disappeared towards the South. An a/c that I took to be a PA28 followed by a 150/152 trundled around the peri towards the same hold and then at intervals departed.
Three or four mnutes later, I was astonished to see the Diamond return downwind along that same runway this time heading in a North/East direction. It passed to the right of Lancing College appeared to lose power, descending quite sharply towards the ground in front of the high ground to the North East then, climbed and disappeared behind trees and hills.
My first thought was that the runway direction had been changed and I tried to check with the windsock which looked as if it was indicating from a southerly direction. Another a/c of a type that I couldn’t recognise then departed on the same runway towards the South.
Three or four minutes later there was a repeat with the Diamond again making a low pass down the same runway and departing to the North/East.
I know that Shoreham have an efficient and capable ATC but, my thought at the time was that what I had witnessed did not look like good airmanship and might possibly lead to a mishap. We then left.
John Green
By: hampden98 - 8th July 2012 at 20:05
I have to admit since the AAIB upgraded their website it’s not very intuitive to use. Preferred the simpler, and easier old site.
By: Garyw - 8th July 2012 at 19:45
By: Arabella-Cox - 8th July 2012 at 18:46
as it doesn’t seem to appear on AAIB web page.
Its in the AAIBs June 2012 Bulletin.
By: Arabella-Cox - 8th July 2012 at 18:18
A very “vulgarized” version if anything…
By: Newforest - 8th July 2012 at 16:40
Newspaper item on the AAIB report.
The paper would seem to have an advance report on the accident as it doesn’t seem to appear on AAIB web page.
By: Jamie-Southend - 7th July 2011 at 22:09
RIP and condolences to the family.
By: Propstrike - 5th July 2011 at 22:33
Alan Weals, ex BA, a very experienced ATPL, recently retired.
By: JT442 - 5th July 2011 at 22:11
Northern Aviators! Via Paul Kiddell
“The owner of the beautiful Vans RV-7 that visited the GNFI late on the Sunday, Alan Weals, was tragically killed yesterday in a mid-air whilst doing the flt test of his friends RV at Shoreham yesterday.
Aviation is such a small world…
They did make it up to Unst after Eshott and enjoyed a 2000 mile flight.”
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th July 2011 at 14:39
Sad news. RIP and condolences to the family. 🙁
By: Propstrike - 5th July 2011 at 08:58
A ‘version’ of events in the Daily Mail
A pilot managed to divert his plane from a busy town centre minutes before it nosedived and exploded in a 30 foot fireball.
The man, a 63-year-old from the local area, had been involved in a mid-air collision with another small aircraft, causing his plane to lose its tail and crash land in a sports ground, narrowly missing a dog walker.
The second plane managed to land safely after the accident near Shoreham Airport, close to Brighton in West Sussex, yesterday afternoon at 4.30pm.
The crashed plane was thought to be a privately-owned Vans kit plane while the other was a Diamond two-seater model.
A Sussex Police spokesman said the pilot appeared to avoid houses before the crash on to the Adur recreation ground.
There were people in the area at the time but there were no casualties on the ground.
By: nJayM - 5th July 2011 at 07:17
Extremely sad news
Extremely sad news, condolences to those bereaved and may those past on RIP
By: scotavia - 4th July 2011 at 23:44
Really sad news.
I get a uneasy feeling when I have not got all the circuit traffic,joins and deps visual and wish that pilots in command would ask for further info from air traffic to help locate the traffic.
By: wannabe pilot - 4th July 2011 at 21:53
I rarely post here any more but this story really sticks in my throat.
I flew down to the IOW yesterday and dropped in to Shoreham for some fuel for the journey home. As always Shoreham was busy, aircraft approaching from East and West, some joining overhead and some being allowed to join crosswind, it certainly crossed my mind a few times ‘can you imagine if one of them cropped up on you out of the blue’. I could only do my best to look out how I’ve been taught, I still felt that if today is your day, then there might not be much you can do about it before it’s too late. It’s terrible news that almost exactly 24 hours later, someone in the very same place as me has met their fate in such an awful way. My thoughts are with all those involved.
By: EGTC - 4th July 2011 at 21:26
It really is a scary thing when it happens.
Mine was similar to yours but with a diamond twin star coming towards me, but he wasnt far off of the same altitude as I was. That took a quick reaction and a few moments to compose ones self.
We were both trying to navigate around a thunder shower at the time.
About a month or so later 2 light aircraft collided at coventry (while I was flying) That broke my heart to see that all over the news.
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