Doug - would you know this person?

[Saitek]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/6352037.stm

Aircraft number not given, but you have probably photographed it before.

[Hagar]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/6352037.stm

Aircraft number not given, but you have probably photographed it before.

I heard about this on the local radio yesterday. The aircraft registration & owner's name have not been released so I have no idea who they might be.

Very sad. These things are reported all the time but it's different when it's close to home like this. As I recall, the weather wasn't too good here on Saturday. Not sure what it was like over the French Alps.

[beaky]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/6352037.stm

Aircraft number not given, but you have probably photographed it before.

I heard about this on the local radio yesterday. The aircraft registration & owner's name have not been released so I have no idea who they might be.

Very sad. These things are reported all the time but it's different when it's close to home like this. As I recall, the weather wasn't too good here on Saturday. Not sure what it was like over the French Alps.

The article mentions a "snowstorm over the Alps"... probably encountered ice. Or maybe they lost an engine... it's easy to forget that that "spare" engine on most light singles won't do much good at all by itself over mountains, especially in poor weather.