we in the southwest need a new airport i think the planned airport on the river 7 was the right idea but in the wrong spot if they had put it in devon or gloustershire it would have been ideal another posibility is for R.A.F Lyneham near swindon to become a new comercial airport when it closes in 2012 it has long enough runways road links to the m4 terminal ect.

kool pics got the emirates landind as my backround 😀

good report glad you had a ncie time in Paris it is a lovly place to visit did u go to notre damn and the eiffel tower and the sacre cur church on the hill wonderfull city one thing i noticed when i went there the underground/metro/tube have rubber wheels on some of the cariages did you experience the metro? anyway glad you had a nice time 🙂

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

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