Ryanair Pilot killed in Oxfordshire was passionate and charismatic
Dave BondA pilot who perished in an Oxfordshire plane crash was said to be charismatic, determined and courageous.
On Friday, Fifty-five-year-old Anthony Corr of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, died in the crash alongside forty-five-year-old Richard Leonard of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
The Piper PA-31 light aircraft crashed in fields in Bladon near Oxford Airport.
Mr Corr, a married father-of-two, was posted in Northern Ireland in the 1980’s for bomb disposal work and had also been employed as a pilot for the low-cost airline Ryanair.
The aviation enthusiast leaves behind Krystyna, his widow, as well as his two daughters, twenty-sic-year-old Aleksandra and twenty-one-year-old Antonia.
His family said via a statement that he was “a superlative pilot whose great passion was for aviation”.
The plane’s wreckage will be fully investigated at the Hampshire base of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB).
A representative for the AAIB said that an investigation had already been initiated by a team on all aspects of the crash although it would not speculate on the cause of the accident.
According to witness Michael McPeak, the aircraft almost immediately burst into flames following the impact.
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