Accidents
- On Friday, 24 October 2003, a US registered six-seater TBM 700 came down 200 meters short of the runway in the Tay Estuary. The hovercraft was deployed and they were rescued from the aircraft in around 15 minutes. The four people on board received only minor injuries.
- On Monday, 6 June 2005, an instructor and trainee escaped uninjured when a Grob 115 crashed through a fence at Dundee Airport after the novice got into difficulties. The plane was extensively damaged in the accident.
- In September/October 2012 a small 20-30 seater aircraft was made to go around several times after a laser was pointed into the cockpit of the aircraft. Police investigated the matter and arrested a man in his late teens.
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Famous quotes containing the word accidents:
“Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measures are the hours; morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of nature play through his mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.”
—George Farquhar (1678–1707)