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By: 21st July 2013 at 17:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Certainly not good news.
We treat the Sunday outing to Le Touquet as a 'milk run' but this is a reminder that risks are always present.
So far it doesn't sound very hopeful
Moggy
By: 21st July 2013 at 17:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-You're right. I've never done the Le Touquet run myself but it's always sounded like a lot fun of.
I really hope the pilot is found safe and well. Just have to wait now.
By: 21st July 2013 at 17:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I've done six crossings so far this year and actually spend longer over the Thames Estuary than over The Channel (Route Harwich > Cap Gris Nez more or less straight line)
You are always hyper-sensitive to engine noises overwater.
Moggy
By: 21st July 2013 at 17:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Sky news at 5.26. Nothing new. Good wishes for a successfull outcome.
http://news.sky.com/story/1118652/light-aircraft-crashes-into-english-channel
By: 21st July 2013 at 19:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Aircraft believed to be a Cirrus and wreckage has been found.
By: 21st July 2013 at 20:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Ex-Blackbushe by all accounts.
Moggy
By: 21st July 2013 at 21:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-You are always hyper-sensitive to engine noises overwater.Moggy
I actually agree with that. When I trained at Perranporth, we did our circuits over the sea and I always remember being so sensitive to the engine noise.
As apparent wreckage has been found, I take it the pilot hasn't?
By: 21st July 2013 at 22:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-No news on that, which can't be good. If it is Cirrus they aren't ideal to use the chute over water.
Moggy
By: 22nd July 2013 at 01:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Yeah. :( BBC news says the search for the pilot has been suspended for the night. That really does make it look very bleak :(
By: 22nd July 2013 at 10:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Oh dear.
A spokesman for Dover Coastguard said: "Having taken the advice of the RAF as well as the French rescue authorities, we have decided that we won't be resuming the search."
Moggy
By: 22nd July 2013 at 11:20 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Not looking good at all, has there been any update today?
By: 22nd July 2013 at 14:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I'm surprised they didn't spend at least one more day searching for the pilot. However I guess they know what the chances of survival are in the sea better than I do.
By: 22nd July 2013 at 19:03 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Have seen photos of the wreckage and that is why the search is not being continued. The aircraft now identified as N147KA.
By: 24th July 2013 at 07:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-To add to the general air of mystification
Moggy
By: 24th July 2013 at 08:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-A banker with RBS.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10198122/German-banker-named-as-missing-pilot.html
By: 29th July 2013 at 15:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-An appeal is being made for donations to raise the aircraft and answer some questions as no other organization is interested in the recovery.
By: 29th July 2013 at 15:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-An appeal is being made for donations to raise the aircraft and answer some questions as no other organization is interested in the recovery.
You would think the authorities would recover the aircraft. There must be an RN or other European naval vessel near by that could raise it?
By: 12th August 2013 at 08:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Yulia, the pilot's wife has started this blog to keep us informed.
By: 18th August 2013 at 16:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-It would appear that divers have 'accidentally' found the fuselage. :eagerness:
By: 18th August 2013 at 23:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Well.. There's a turn up for the book.
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By: EGTC - 21st July 2013 at 17:31
Hoping for a good outcome:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23399158