Plane crashes into houses at Biggin Hill.

[dougdeep]

Kent air crash: Five people feared dead - Telegraph

 

[dougdeep]

Make that Farnborough.

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

No survivors

RIP to the 5 in the plane

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Anybody who goes up in a Cessna is ultimately putting their life in the hands of a souped-up lawn-mower engine. If it stalls, there's no parachutes, you ain't going to glide to earth, you're f***ed basically. RIP tho. Obviously.

 

[Box of Frogs]

OMG - family that own the house away on holiday, coming back tonight. How lucky are they - could have come back yesterday and now be dead. Obviously homeless now though but better than being lifeless!

RIP the 5 in the plane but I really wonder why people put their lives at risk going up in those things!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

OMG - family that own the house away on holiday, coming back tonight. How lucky are they - could have come back yesterday and now be dead.

Could be worse, they could be stuck at Heathrow T5 for the rest of their lives

 

[timco]

don't you just love google adds

3 ads at the top all about the fear of flying!

 

[Stevie Boy]

just seeing the news, one of the people on the plane was David Leslie, an ex touring car driver, Sad Loss

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Along with Richard Lloyd, the former racing driver.

 

[Fungus]

Anybody who goes up in a Cessna is ultimately putting their life in the hands of a souped-up lawn-mower engine. If it stalls, there's no parachutes, you ain't going to glide to earth, you're f***ed basically.

Erm, so which planes have you been on that have parachutes? Or that "glide to earth"? Or is a Cessna uniquely a death trap?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Erm, so which planes have you been on that have parachutes? Or that "glide to earth"? Or is a Cessna uniquely a death trap?

Good point. In actual fact, the only plane ride where I have been offered a parachute was in fact a Cessna.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Or is a Cessna uniquely a death trap?

Stats for Southern England suggest that yes, yes it is.

 

[The Offspring]

It was one of these, a Cessna Citation 501.

 

[bright1064]

I have only flown once, and I thouroughly hated every second of it
It was only a short haul trip to Nice as well!!

I will need serious coaching to ever set foot on a plane again, I have a genuine fear of flying.

As for the crash today, RIP to the 5 that died. A tragic accident.

 

[acrossthepond]

Anybody who goes up in a Cessna is ultimately putting their life in the hands of a souped-up lawn-mower engine. If it stalls, there's no parachutes, you ain't going to glide to earth, you're f***ed basically. RIP tho. Obviously.

Just as a matter of interest, how many flying hours do you have? I'm assuming that you've flown a range of aircraft on which to base that opinion. FWIW, my experience is that the Cessnas, of the types that I've flown, are some of the most forgiving aircraft in the air. Fact is, if you get into trouble at a couple of hundred feet in any aircraft then you're going to need a large dose of luck to go with any skill that you have to get out of it.

Stats for Southern England suggest that yes, yes it is.

What stats would those be then? You can see C510 stats here (not updated yet with this incident, obv):

Aviation Safety Network > ASN Aviation Safety Database > Type index > ASN Aviation Safety Database results

And yes, I agree, RIP those killed...

 

[bhaexpress]

It's about 4 miles from where I live. Never heard a thing. Biggin Hill is hardly Heathrow and Citations are about the biggest planes to flight out of there. Just a sad accident the like of which can happen on any road daily.

 

[murciagull]

Sad story but couldnt help smilimg at this quote from the Daily Mail

"Last night Mrs Harman arrived at what was left of her £450,000 home and sobbed: "Oh my God, oh my God, the house, not the house, a plane into my house..." She was led away by a male relative.

Her husband said he would be completing his golf trip before returning home tomorrow. "

Got his priorites right then

 

[bhaexpress]

Even in an area like that she'd be hard pressed to get £450,000 for that house !

 

[Marc]

just seeing the news, one of the people on the plane was David Leslie, an ex touring car driver, Sad Loss

yeah I was at Brands yesterday for the BTCC, saw MURRAY WALKER and lots of FIT PIT GIRLS!
Shame about the crash, I vaguely remember Leslie.

 

[Yorkie]

The co pilot was from Shoreham. Mike Chapman.
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