Witness describes light aircraft 'just flipping over'
By Guy MartinNovember 08, 2010
THE two men who survived a light aircraft crash near Dorking last Friday afternoon (November 5) have been described as "very lucky" by an eyewitness.
The plane, believed to be on a flying lesson from Fairoaks Airport in Chobham, came down in a field in Westcott.
The instructor and his pupil were freed by fire crews, one of them having to be cut from the wreckage.
The crash-landing happened at around 3.45pm at Milton Court Farm,?which is owned by Surrey NFU chairman Hugh Broom.
He said: "I got a phone call to say a plane had come down.?Someone said they heard the engine cutting out.
“The world and his wife were here. There were blue lights and everything else, and the air ambulance came in.
"I think those guys were very lucky when you look at that plane.
"It was never going to be a smooth landing and I think when it hit the mud it just went 'donk'.”
Local resident David McCombe saw the plane going over his head, and he said: "He?tried to land it on the up-slope on the field and it just flipped over."
For more on this story, see this week's Dorking edition of the Surrey Advertiser, out on Friday, November 13.
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