Pilot's Licence!
Sunday 7 June 2009
A friend (used here in the losest sense) sent me this, he thinks he's funny!!!
My ex-wife started taking flying lessons about the time our divorce started and she got her license shortly before our divorce was final, later that same year.
Yesterday afternoon I got a phone call, telling me that she had narrowly escaped injury. Seems she was forced to make an emergency landing approaching Gatwick because of bad weather.
The CAA issued a preliminary report, citing pilot error: She was flying in IFR (instrument flight rating) conditions while only having obtained a VFR (visual flight rating) rating.
The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to lack of fuel. No one on the ground was injured.
The photograph below was taken at the scene to show the wreckage.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr8y5thRUuQ6qSgGuwOPwvAJRyd1o-GIqddb9ohvcY1vLtIt3-j0mvOsBs4LoDlZF2IRfHw9EJUHdQy-ggCbi_UVOY5j3tf_reQymM_SkgrbjVRxsx3iokGszyPW46DVHDUpxYkEKNOSmy/s320/Broken_Broom_by_Birvan.jpg)
She was really lucky.
7 June 2009 at 13:34
It got a light chuckle from me.
No LOL.
7 June 2009 at 15:01
yep, made me smile xx
7 June 2009 at 17:45
Love it. Can think of a few people I'd like to see it...
7 June 2009 at 20:18
Had me going Sal ~ You know we are pilots!!! Made me smile!!
7 June 2009 at 23:14
My mind went to the sharp point on the broken piece, while thinking, "Thank goodness that didn't get imbedded anywhere." ; )
8 June 2009 at 07:39
HA!
8 June 2009 at 20:58
So thats what I saw hehe
8 June 2009 at 22:29
HAHA nice, oh that is mine, when can I have it back?