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#1 Post by Boac » Sat Sep 04, 2021 6:40 pm

One of a pair of Stearmans taking part in the Bournemouth air display apparently had to ditch in Poole Harbour today. Both 'occupants' escaped with reported minor injuries. I don't know who the crew were or whether it was 'Cubes' flying.

Considering one was a wing walker.................................................................

Didn't look too enjoyable!

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#2 Post by Boac » Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:00 am

I have tracked down the video again! I gather from witnesses that the lady had recovered to the cockpit before the crash (I bet she is pleased about that....) :))

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... PZdOZwFaZe

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#3 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:12 am

Did I "miss" the existing thread? It even mentioned Poole Harbour!

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#4 Post by Boac » Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:13 am

No - did you?

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#5 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:14 am

Boac wrote:
Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:13 am
No - did you?
Apparently not! My apologies my dear chap! :)

I was in the process of correcting my comment when you responded!

Perhaps our kind Admin can be persuaded to join the threads so that chronology might be preserved!
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#6 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:26 am

I see from the Mail the pilot opting to land amongst the 100s of boats in the marina.

If he did, he never made it. He appears to be on the Channel side of the harbour entrance. What he might have done was avoided the beaches that would certainly have had a few dozen people not to mention rock breakwaters every couple of hundred yards.

"Hero pilot struggles to avoid packed beaches with thousands of families enjoying the last of the summer sun"

That the Sandbank beaches are busy is a given but much less so than Bournemouth.

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#7 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:35 am

All in all better to land in the drink and survive than smite an obstacle on the seafront!

This accident, unfortunately, did not have such a good outcome... Too low, too slow!

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#8 Post by Boac » Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:41 am

Dinna fret, TGG. It is what happens on an unmoderated forum like O-N - topic duplication, thread divergence (I recall you possibly coined a trigraph for that a while back?) etc etc. Even pissters who don't bathroom to look at the hieroglyphics they have pestered.

I think with the powers wot the blessed mother has ordained upon me I probably could do the merge, but cannot be arsed. No doubt both threads will be added to in time by the myopic. Enjoy!

EDIT: That should have read 'posters'/'bother'/'posted' =))

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#9 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:48 am

Boac wrote:
Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:41 am
Dinna fret, TGG. It is what happens on an unmoderated forum like O-N - topic duplication, thread divergence (I recall you possibly coined a trigraph for that a while back?) etc etc. Even pissters who don't bathroom to look at the hieroglyphics they have pestered.

I think with the powers wot the blessed mother has ordained upon me I probably could do the merge, but cannot be arsed. No doubt both threads will be added to in time by the myopic. Enjoy!

EDIT: That should have read 'posters'/'bother'/'posted' =))
I see that my slackness ref. my internet has resulted in an outbreak of "couldn't be arsedness" all over this site... ;)))

One bad apple as they say... =))
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#10 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Sep 05, 2021 11:24 am

I think TGGs link on the other thread was better 😆

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#11 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sun Sep 05, 2021 5:21 pm

No much of a flare visible in that grainy clip. :-o :-?

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#12 Post by FD2 » Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:16 pm

Yes - as expected the hero comments have started. He somehow managed to ditch without hitting anything except the water. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/0 ... -rescuers/


Pilot in Bournemouth Air Festival crash deserves a medal, say rescuers


Two people were injured after an aerobatics display team plane crashed at the Bournemouth Air Festival

By Telegraph Reporters 5 September 2021 • 7:35pm


The pilot of the wingwalker plane which crashed into Bournemouth harbour during an air display deserves a medal, according to rescuers.

The two-seat biplane had been taking part in the Bournemouth Air Festival when it came down in Poole Harbour, near Sandbanks, on Saturday afternoon.

Libby Chambers, her partner, Alan Badenhorst, and their three children had been watching the air show from a dinghy and witnessed the crash.

“The pilot was straight out and I remember he pulled the wingwalker out and she was in quite a state really – she was petrified and couldn’t stop screaming,” Ms Chambers told the Bournemouth Echo.

The family went to rescue the pilot and wingwalker and pulled them into their dinghy.

“The pilot was incredible, he deserves a medal – I have no idea how he missed the rocks, the marker and the boats – he was just out of this world,” added Ms Chambers.

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#13 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Sep 05, 2021 11:07 pm

FD2 wrote:
Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:16 pm
Yes - as expected the hero comments have started. He somehow managed to ditch without hitting anything except the water. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/0 ... -rescuers/


Pilot in Bournemouth Air Festival crash deserves a medal, say rescuers


Two people were injured after an aerobatics display team plane crashed at the Bournemouth Air Festival

By Telegraph Reporters 5 September 2021 • 7:35pm


The pilot of the wingwalker plane which crashed into Bournemouth harbour during an air display deserves a medal, according to rescuers.

The two-seat biplane had been taking part in the Bournemouth Air Festival when it came down in Poole Harbour, near Sandbanks, on Saturday afternoon.

Libby Chambers, her partner, Alan Badenhorst, and their three children had been watching the air show from a dinghy and witnessed the crash.

Yes, it almost hilarious, given some of the comments made by the press. As I mentioned on the other thread, one journalist nincompoop wrote that the AAIB would be looking for the black box, as part of their investigation!

Oh well, I am happy, at least one South African was involved, even if ever so peripherally, in the "great rescue"... Badenhorst is a quintessential Saffer surname. =))

Perhaps he is the famous Alan Badenhorst....

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#14 Post by G-CPTN » Mon Sep 06, 2021 12:20 am

Did he miss the school?

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#15 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Sep 06, 2021 12:32 am

Nah. It was an old folk's home. :))

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#16 Post by Boac » Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:15 am

I see 'The Sun' attempting to prise the Daily Wail's Journalism award away.........

"The woman can be heard screaming for help as the boat sat in the water, with rescuers in a boat nearby."

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#17 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:29 am

I imagine it's quite tricky screaming when you are trying to stop drowning. Listening again to the Sun video, there is certainly screaming so she got that right. Might have chipped a fingernail.

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#18 Post by Boac » Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:32 am

I would imagine it is probably alarmingly easy?

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#19 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Sep 07, 2021 8:32 am

recovery.JPG

And the Independent has continued the ludicrous "black box" meme
Officials are trying to find the aircraft’s black box to establish what happened, according to local media, though it has already been alleged there was some kind of issue with the plane’s engine.
What can one say about such a ludicrous statement? I mean what else might the pilot have been thinking when he landed in the water? Perhaps he wanted a swim? =))

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 14366.html

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#20 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:26 am

How long will divers look for the black box? Could be a l O n g time. I might ask my Son in Law to pop one in tonight.

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