Vigilant Crash in Gloucester

A Vigilant in private hands crashed the other day in Gloucester.
Pilot said he’s not lucky because if he was he wouldn’t have crashed in the first place!

Not a Vigilant but a privately owned Grob 109B. Just to clarify this particular aircraft involved in the incident was never owned by the MOD or Aerobility. Just the same aircraft type. Some reporting inaccuracies.

I should have known better to trust the Daily Mail! (Other links were paywalled)

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To be fair, the Daily Mail doesn’t state that this particular one used to be part of the RAFAC fleet. Just that:

The Grob 109B was used extensively by the Royal Air Force,

Most probably the ‘Jesus’ pin snapped.