A light aircraft has crashed in Greater Manchester, with two people travelling in the plane. According to the Flight Radar, the crashed aircraft is a small Cirrus SR20. The aircraft took off from Birmingham before losing altitude at 10 a.m.
Emergency Service Rush To The Scene
Police, firefighters and an air ambulance soon reached the crash site on the M62 in Littleborough, Rochdale. Meanwhile, the initial sightings indicate that one of the two passengers had evacuated the plane using a parachute. While speaking with the BBC, the Greater Manchester Police said,
“We are currently in attendance to establish the full circumstances and assess any casualties. A scene is in place while emergency service workers conduct their enquiries, and people are asked to avoid the area as this work is carried out.”
Witnesses Describe Dramatic Scene
The air ambulance at the scene in Tunshill Lane, which is just off Kiln Lane and close to Tunshill Golf Club, later landed at Salford Royal Hospital.
One of the witnesses of the crash, Pete Robinson, said he saw “a massive response going up Blackstone Edge” while he was feeding his sheep.
“So I went up into a top field and saw what I thought at the time to be a paraglider on the moor edge, engines and lights everywhere.”
Another witness recalls seeing the response teams running up the track to the pylon and said,
“Hopefully they will be okay because the wind is horrendous up on the moor edge.”
Stephanie Mills, from Dickey Steps Riding School, told BBC Radio Manchester,
“There wasn’t any noise, I didn’t hear anything, but there is a huge yellow parachute. There is a lot of police and helicopters here too.”
Andrew Mayall, a greenkeeper at Whittaker Golf Club, said:
“I noticed something about 10ish this morning. I thought at first that a massive sheet had been blown up there at first, as it’s very windy up here.”
While the rescue team is still at the site, more details of the crash are still to be uncovered.
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