Odd plane incident in Essex

[StevieBee]

Seems a light aircraft came down on/in Hanningfield Reservoir on Sunday afternoon.

As of this afternoon, authorities are still searching for it and have no idea who was onboard or how many.

https://www.maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk/news/25...

Seems a bit strange to me, The reservoir is quite large, granted, but I would have thought they'd have found something out about by now.

[johnpsanderson]

Just seen this on the BBC website reporting a body has been recovered: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62n2p7ypd1o

[cookie1600]

Mans body recovered from Essex reservoir after small plane crash

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/body-recovered-hanni...

[butchstewie]

It was in the Daily Mail earlier (I know) that suicide notes had been found (electronic I presume) and the suggestion is it was a deliberately crashed.

[Wheel Turned Out]

butchstewie said:

It was in the Daily Mail earlier (I know) that suicide notes had been found (electronic I presume) and the suggestion is it was a deliberately crashed.

I know people aren't in their right mind in such instances (if it is the case that it's why the crash occurred), but goodness what a traumatic way to fashion your own exit. If the crash doesn't knock you out or do the job instantly...doesn't bear thinking about.

[StevieBee]

Does seem it's suicide. Very sad though one small crumb is that he didn't involve others in his demise.

I did think that following that Germanwings incident pilots have to undergo extended and regular psychological assessment. I presume that hasn't filtered down to the private/leisure pilots.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

His Flightradar track was rather erratic, to say the least. Departing North Weald headed for Southend.



I presume an awful lot of work will have to be done now in order to check the contamination level of the water, although that reservoir does feed into the water treatment works anyway

[cronie007]

I thought the same thing tbh. Even if the reservoir is big, a whole plane just vanishing feels… off. I live not far from there and it’s usually busy enough that someone sees something.