Sad news, more details when available. R.I.P.
By: Newforest - 2nd October 2013 at 11:24
More from Somerset.
By: Moggy C - 1st October 2013 at 13:11
According to this more balanced report, and a quick bit of Google Earth, 2,100 metres or 1.3 miles as the crow flies.
http://www.chardandilminsternews.co.uk/news/10707383.Pilot_dies_after_Somerset_plane_crash/
Moggy
By: paul178 - 1st October 2013 at 11:28
Apparently the aircraft crashed a mile and a half from the school.
By: charliehunt - 1st October 2013 at 09:57
I guess the guy felt it sounded like a single engine aircraft diving at speed rather than an normal flyover…but it is wrong to report such statements as they do nothing for impartial news reporting.
Most news nowadays seems to be biased from the stations point of view and that is something that should be stopped.
I really feel for the family of the lost pilot and this sort of “entertainment” reporting must only make their pain worse.
My condolences to his family.
I agree. This type of story is very distressing and dreadful for family and friends to have to hear or read. I gave up the BBC as my preferred news source a long while ago. But most go for the “sensational” spin as Moggy suggests. That and the innate desire to be the first to get the story out rather than waiting for the facts to emerge and then report calmly and accurately.
By: Moggy C - 1st October 2013 at 08:35
It’s an appetite for the sensational.
“Pilot of small aircraft gets caught out by the weather and dies without involving anyone else” just won’t hack it. A nearby school is a godsend for the aspring young journo.
I feel desperately sorry for the pilot. There but for….. etc etc…
The story about the Hurricane was an interesting sidelight.
Moggy
By: garryrussell - 1st October 2013 at 08:03
I guess the guy felt it sounded like a single engine aircraft diving at speed rather than an normal flyover…but it is wrong to report such statements as they do nothing for impartial news reporting.
Most news nowadays seems to be biased from the stations point of view and that is something that should be stopped.
I really feel for the family of the lost pilot and this sort of “entertainment” reporting must only make their pain worse.
My condolences to his family.
By: Agent K - 1st October 2013 at 07:31
Condolences to the family of the lost pilot.
I get so angry with this reporting from the BBC and other media always when an aircraft crashes:
Farmer Andrew Coombs said there was “thick drizzly fog” at the time.
“I heard what sounded like a display stunt team.
What exactly does a display stunt team sound like compared to a normal aircraft moving through the throttle. Why the BBC insist on quoting uninformed and non-aviation experienced people like they have a clue what happened is so very annoying. Just about every accident was caused according to some idiot in the street as stunt/display flying or was on fire…………
By: Arabella-Cox - 1st October 2013 at 01:08
I am only just up the road, in a manner of speaking, from here and the weather at this time was awful, with drizzle and about .5 mile viz. Cloud base was only about 100 ft with hills buried within them.
Its reported to be a TB10.
I fly myself. I feel for that Poor Chap, it must have been an awful last few moments. RIP My Flying Friend.
Who ever he is I would like to send my Condolences to his family and friends.
Mark
By: EGTC - 30th September 2013 at 22:52
Moggy C, notice how they call the CAA the civil Aviation Agency? :p Dreadful reporting.
Such a sad event. I had a feeling it maybe weather related.
By: TonyT - 30th September 2013 at 19:25
Looking like weather related 🙁
By: Moggy C - 30th September 2013 at 18:46
Meanwhile ‘Cub’ reporter Clinton Rogers of BBC Points West managed
“…the plane came down…just metres away from children outside playing”
“… the CAA will want to know why the plane was flying SO LOW, SO CLOSE to a built up area”
Tw@t 😡
Moggy
By: EGTC - 30th September 2013 at 18:40
Prepare for a ban all GA call now that a private school was located near a crash site.
Funny of the mail to bring up a crash that happened during WWII, that’s just ridiculous.
RIP to the pilot, sad news.
By: Moggy C - 30th September 2013 at 18:03
The place is cursed (You can rely on Direly Mail to come up with alarmist information)
£28,000-a-year school also saw a plane crash in 1943 that killed nine boys
World War Two Hawker Sea Hurricane on a training exercise came down on the cricket pitch, killing nine schoolboys. David Lowndes, Laurence McNabb, Keith Stokes and Michael Quinlan, all 15; Philip Rose, Hugh Dearlove and Brian McSwiney, all 14; Grahame Letts, 13; and David Jennings, 10.
Moggy
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