Looking at the crash site and from what one eye witness said Quote "Local resident Derek Higgott, who lives close to the crash scene, said: "I heard the plane, I looked up, and suddenly it just turned and went straight down like a stunt plane. "
..... it appears to me that the plane has stalled and spun in. The wreckage is confined to a relatively small area, which also points to this theory. John nb Charlotte Rose >From footage on Central one would assume some debris went in the cut which is >just under the site shown as where the plane hit. That was the opposite side >of the rail bridge to the lock mooring. In summer the shot would have been >full of queuing boats - but none was visible in the accident footage. Was the >canal closed? --- On Sat, 1/3/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Colwich light aircraft crash To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 1:06 PM On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:54:30 +0000, Steve Wood wrote: > >BBC News have been reporting a light aircraft crash at lunchtime today >in the Colwich/Little Haywood area: ><http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 1/hi/england/ staffordshire/ 7808254.stm> > >I hear that the railway has been closed but does anyone know if the >canal is also affected? The description of the crash site seems very >close to the cut. > >Steve >NB Bream > It seems to be quite close to the site of the 1986 Colwich junction rail crash - http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Colwich_rail_ crash -- Keith Midgley (my first name works better than carnivorous products in email replies). [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
