Midair collision Nr Abingdon

[Semi hemi]

Reports on Sky of a glider and a light aircraft,
glider pilot believed to have parachuted to safety but two killed in the 'plane.

[Stu R]

I'm not sure if it's just selective reporting, or me not paying attention to the news as much in previous years, but there seems to be a lot of aircraft crashing recently.

[elster]

Stu R said:

I'm not sure if it's just selective reporting, or me not paying attention to the news as much in previous years, but there seems to be a lot of aircraft crashing recently.

No just getting reported more. I haven't seen an increase in the numbers listed.

Seems a bad day in Abingdon today, rally car crash and mid air collision. Maybe it is like the bermuda triangle today, or some such thing.

[Nickyboy]

Ahh that would explain the dozens of sirens going past a couple of hours ago, i'm only 5 mins from Abingdon

Crap, reading the news report, it says they crashed about a mile from me

Edited by Nickyboy on Sunday 14th June 18:40

[CatherineJ]

Apparently 2 are dead, it was an RAF Trainer that hit the glider.

[Oily Nails]

CatherineJ said:

Apparently 2 are dead, it was an RAF Trainer that hit the glider.

I know its just that air incidents are getting reported more on mass media....
....but the RAF seem to be having a bad year with 'trainer' aircraft...didn't 2 collide a short while back?

[CatherineJ]

There was something recently, I can't remember if it was trainer planes or helicopters.

[RDE]

Yes, two Tutors from RAF St Athan collided in February.

[elster]

I am guessing this will be the VGS or going up in an AEF.

The problem with this is you have a combination of a lot of pilots hour building and a child. 99.9% of the time it works very well. But it can easily go wrong.

There have been quite a few near misses with the VGS.

[Semi hemi]

IIRC there were a number of people on here that knew the instructors involved in the last incident, My sympathy to anyone affected in this instance and of course to the families of those involved.

[Mojocvh]

Deeply,deeply shocked and saddened by this terrible news.
My heartfelt condolences to all touched by this.

MoJo.