Mike Aubrey’s plane stopped working at 300ft in the air.
The wife of a pilot who crash-landed into woodland from 300ft has said it is “remarkable” that he survived as she paid tribute to emergency services for saving her husband’s life.
“We owe Mike’s life to London’s Air Ambulance Charity and all the clinicians who looked after him in hospital. Without them it could so easily have been a different outcome.”The accident, on April 4 last year, occurred after Mr Aubrey realised there was an issue with his two-seater plane.Mr Aubrey made a split second decision to steer the plane away from electricity pylons, an industrial estate and a busy road.
Paramedics from the Air Ambulance and London Ambulance Service gave him general anaesthetic so they could perform a surgical procedure on a collapsed lung and realign his broken ankle. “At the beginning, he would have a lot of flashbacks from the incident and you’d see blind fear in his face. It was horrible.”
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