Pensioner, 71, describes moment she found crashed plane in her ...
Feb. 26
The convict was a passenger in the Cessna 172 when the aircraft crashed in trees in the back garden of Eileen and Alfred Watling's garden in Folkestone, Kent. The elderly couple watched in amazement as the prisoner and the pilot emerged from the wreckage and dropped to the ground, shortly after taking off from Rochester Airport in Kent. The convict, who has not been named, was serving his sentence for importing drugs at Blantyre House Prison, Goudhurst, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent. The plane was 10ft from our neighbour's house. A spokesman for Kent Police said: "We don't know what caused the crash but they managed to get the aircraft down without injuring themselves or anyone else. It is interesting to speculate why a criminal on day release, following a drugs importation conviction, might be in need of a private plane.
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