Hiker’s death an ‘accident’
Navy chopper rescues model plane stuck on top of old stack
TENSION may have been stacking up on the ground but a Royal Navy chopper pulled off a model rescue.
Roger Bath crashed his radiocontrolled plane on top of the remote chimney while out with his club and was stumped.
So a member of RC Cornwall Flyers called Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Helston – which happened to have a search and rescue exercise on and took up the challenge.
Roger, 68, from Camborne, said: “We were having a competition of spot-landing. I had the perfect spot-landing, you could say. How the heck it got in the chimney I don’t know.”
The Merlin chopper lowered Lieutenant Donell Fairweather down to grab the plane at the Victorian engine house chimney near Nancegollan,
TALL ORDER Victorian chimney West Cornwall. Lieutenant Commander Steve Thomas said Wednesday’s extra test was simply too good to miss.
He said: “The task was far from simple. Everyone gets more out of doing something like this than they do just training at the airfield.”
Model in stack
Donell with RC model
Roger thanks Steve
A BRITISH yoga teacher died after falling on a mountain in Guatemala as she went to watch the sunrise, an inquest has heard.
Catherine Shaw’s naked body was found near the Indian Nose trail in March – days after setting off on the South American trek.
But Oxford coroner Darren Salter ruled out “foul play” as he reached an accidental death verdict.
Father Tarquin said the 23-year-old, from Witney, Oxon, was “quite capable” of removing her clothing.