Sad Sunday
I was out this morning with our visitors Mark and Carol, driving through Apse Heath I caught a glimpse of a small fire off to the right of the road. When I looked properly I saw the cause – moments before we arrived, a light plane had crashed, nose down, into the field – approximate location 50°38’44.88″N, 1°11’53.50″W and only about half a mile from the Southern end of the airport at Sandown.
Mark called the emergency services and I made my way across the road to see if there was a way down to the plane. Unfortunately there were just too many trees and bushes so I couldn’t get across to it, but within a few minutes a helicopter came hovering around the scene and a few minutes later the nearby airfield’s crash tender came flying along the road and managed to beat away across the field. The fire tenders, police and ambulances arrived a little after that.
The plane appeared almost totally burned out and we left the scene slowly trying to come to terms with what we had just seen – we later heard on the radio news that the plane was on its way to France having just left the Sandown airport, sadly police said there were no survivors.
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