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Light Aircraft Missing Off Blackpool

#1 Post by Cave Canem » Thu Dec 03, 2015 5:33 pm

A missing light aircraft may have ditched into the sea after disappearing from radar screens, the UK Coastguard has said.

A major search is under way off the coast of Blackpool after contact was lost with the pilot who was flying solo from the Isle of Man to Blackpool Airport.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/aviation/12030929/Hunt-for-light-aircraft-missing-off-Blackpool-coast.html
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#2 Post by Ibbie » Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:20 pm

Wreckage found.

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/ ... -1-7604440
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#3 Post by Cave Canem » Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:22 pm



As you say, floating debris has been found. One can only hope the pilot made it into a dinghy or the like as taking into the water at this time of the year would not be conducive to a happy outcome after so many hours.

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#4 Post by 500N » Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:24 pm

The weather looked awful on that video.

As you say, hope he made it into some sort of life raft.
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#5 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:53 am

If there is wreckage it doesn't sound like a controlled ditching therefore no controlled exit. Can't read these news reports (slow 3G).Sky News said he was just 3 miles out therefore on an approach under radar? Do they have an ILS. Years since I went there.
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#6 Post by Ibbie » Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:24 am

Latest from the Gazette

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/ ... -1-7606517

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/ ... -1-7606584
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#7 Post by Ibbie » Fri Dec 04, 2015 3:21 pm

Rockwell Commander, Guernsey registered, 2-ROAM.
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#8 Post by Ibbie » Sat Dec 05, 2015 6:54 am

The missing pilot has been named as Ian Stirling, aged 73, of Douglas on the Isle of Man.
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#9 Post by Cave Canem » Mon Dec 07, 2015 1:23 pm

ILS for runway 28 at Blackpool. NDB for 10 if I remember correctly.
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