Teenage pupil and 80-year-old instructor killed in Drymen aircraft crash
An 80-year-old flying instructor and his 16-year-old student died when a light aircraft crashed in a field near Drymen, north of Loch Lomond, on Friday afternoon. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has opened an investigation into the crash.
The aircraft, a 1981 Piper Tomahawk registered to Leading Edge Flight Training, had taken off from Cumbernauld and travelled west before the fatal flight towards the Drymen area. The instructor, Ian Haggis, was an experienced pilot who had worked in training, air taxi, air ambulance and corporate aviation; little is known about the student.
- Two people died in a light aircraft crash near Drymen.
- The victims were an 80-year-old instructor and a 16-year-old student.
- Investigators are examining the cause of the crash.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Boy, 16, on flying lesson and ‘passionate’ instructor aged 80 are both killed as light aircraft comes down at beauty spot”.