A pilot escaped unhurt when his light aircraft crash-landed at Oxenhope airstrip.
An official report just published into last September's incident reveals that the 66-year-old pilot blamed his own inexperience of the plane - a Technam Echo - for the crash. The Air Accident Investigation Branch report says the unnamed pilot had 1,284 hours' flying experience but had not handled that particular type of plane before.
As the aircraft - based at Oxenhope - came into land in shifting winds, it drifted towards a banked area beside the runway. The pilot tried to abort the landing but the plane pitched into the ground and sustained substantial damage.
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