'Jet' crash at Fairoaks.

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http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/fairoaks-plane-crash-private-jet-12031603

Aircraft can be seen as M-V**B but probably not a jet. Pilot lightly injured.

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Correction, aircraft appears to be Socata TBM700, M-VNTR.

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Technically a jet, though not in the way the popular press likes to categorise them.

Good news about the crew whatever.

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Good news about the crew. From my casual acquaintance with them, they do appear to be stouter than the typical SEL (as you'd expect from a pressurized aircraft).

The closest thing to a jet that most private pilots need.
A friend had one for years, even flew it to France.

When he retired he sold it, thinking he didn't need such a capable aircraft and bought successively, a very nice Bonanza A-36 and a late model Mooney.
Now, he's gone back and bought another TBM, he likes them that much...

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Only just missed hitting that tree head on !!