Gemini Flash G-MMKL near Low Lorton.

On 12th August 1986 this microlight had taken off from a farm strip at Armaside Farm, Lorton for a training flight. At 13.45hrs and after climbing to 200ft the instructor noticed that a military aircraft was approaching the microlight at the same height, he took control and put the microlight into a descending turn. Having lost height he decided to land but overshot the selected landing site, struck tree tops on rising ground and crashed. By reading the full crash report on the AAIB website it would infer that the crash site was in the area of trees on the western side of the hill named Harrot.

Pilot - Mr Miles John Postlethwaite.

Pilot - Name unknown.


The location of where this incident occurred has not yet been found. If you can assist please contact me HERE. Thank you.

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