Glider Crash at Bicester last sunday

[Cluny]

Only just heard about this , RIP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-10949058

[Thumper]

Oh god thats awful! Rest in Peace

[Mayfly]

Oh my, how dreadful..

[Xplumberlives]

RIP Amy!

[Jigsaw]

That's terrible indeed. RIP.

[Mags]

Heard about this on Tuesday via the Portmoak e-mail.
She was one of our members. Very sad.

[Lucas1860]

Awful event, so a waste.

[Mags]

I see Bicester had another crash this week but luckily no one was hurt - pilot walked away and thankfully no one hurt on the ground. He crashed landed on top of someones hedge with the wing touching the garage roof!
Pics on bbc site but canny do "linky's"

[Mayfly]

Please there wasn't a second disaster!!!



Mags to make a linky - just highlight all the webpage addy, the http://www......bit - to do this click & hold the left mouse button whist dragging your cursor across whatever it is you wish to highlight. It with show blue.

copy it - [ctrl c] to copy - & paste into your post [ctrl v] to paste, hold both buttons down at the same time.

to get it to open in another window in your post, which makes life easier highlight the link again a click the URL box above.

[Thumper]

Here's Mag's link, the event actually happened in May

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8682575.stm

But this plane crashed into a tree last week near Banbury

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-10930035

[Mags]

Ta MF - will try that next time

Didn't realise that one was in May.

Was hearing up at the club yesterday that the recent accident occured at the top of a winch launch. Gawd!
Glider belonged to one of our members.

[Old Rigger]

Very sad loss indeed, RIP.

The Banbury light aircraft one could be interesting to see where the parachute came from and if it was involved in causing the crash, also don't parachutes in the air normally have someone attached, I hope there does not turn out to be a fatality from this one.

[Thumper]

According to PPRuNe:

The BBC's photo shows it (not surprisingly) to be a Cirrus. I've heard elsewhere that it's believed to be an SR20 and the first CAPS pull in the UK, if not in Europe. Nice to hear that the people on board have been saved by the parachute. Lousy day for flying though, very low cloud across most of Southern/Central England.

I never knew a parachute for an aeroplane existed, what a clever idea! This is the official site which is very interesting:

http://cirrusaircraft.com/parachute/

[Mags]

Some of the newer gliders have recovery chutes too.

[Old Rigger]

Thanks for the gen on the parachute, did no realise that this sort of thing was used, learn something new every day and it obviously works then. I know military aircraft test flights use a spin recovery chute attached at the back of the aircraft during flight testing just in case the aircraft auto spin recovery does'nt work as advertised.

[Hungry Haggis]

just found this on the yahoo site parachute to the rescue again .

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100818/twl ... f21e0.html

[Thumper]

Wow that really is an amazing piece of equipment! Glad he got out OK!

[Mayfly]

It was on the National news at 6 - the clip they showed proved what a great application adding a chute is.

[Mags]

Amy's funeral is tomorrow in Edinburgh I expect there will be a massive turnout from the gliding community.