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Miscellaneous => Aviation News => Topic started by: Anmer on June 06, 2013, 11:47:42 AM
Looks like a Cirrus?
A light aircraft has crash-landed in the rear garden of a home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
An emergency system onboard the aircraft is believed to have been deployed, releasing a parachute to lower the plane down.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-22798139
http://metro.co.uk/2013/06/06/miraculous-escape-as-plane-crashes-into-back-garden-3831061/
"Pictures taken at the scene showed the single engine Cessna embedded in a tree with its parachute still attached just inches from a children's climbing frame."
:)
Here you go guys.. a few more details..
N936CT
Cirrus SR22 GTS G3
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=156346
Well done Smudger.
Picked it up between 10:15 & 10:21 - mode S ACFC37 Presumably on it's way out of London
The latest
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/story-19224759-detail/story.html#axzz2VbkG7bMm
Quote from: Ian K on June 06, 2013, 06:31:16 PM
Picked it up between 10:15 & 10:21 - mode S ACFC37 Presumably on it's way out of London
Airfield of departure was in the Bury St Edmunds area
Thanks John