Lancashire plane crash victims named
Coastguard rescue teams helped search for the wreckage
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Sunday, 04, Feb 2007 08:05
Police have revealed the identities of the two men killed in a plane crash off the Lancashire coast yesterday evening.
Roy Halliwell, a 74-year-old qualified flight instructor and Andrew Walker, an unmarried 26-year-old who lived with his family, died when their Piper Cherokee plane crashed off Fylde, close to Blackpool, after air traffic control lost contact with the plane at around 17:15 GMT yesterday.
The wreckage of the aircraft, a single-engine four-seater, was recovered this morning after its location had been established last night. Poor visibility had caused search and rescue operations to be called off at 21:00 GMT.
The two men were travelling from Exeter to Blackpool at the time of the crash. Both were local to the area, Lancashire police said, but the full addresses of the two men have not yet been disclosed.
"It would of course be quite wrong of me to speculate on the cause of the crash - that will come out in the fullness of time. as the investigation unfolds," the BBC quoted Superintendent Richard Debicki, heading the investigation for Lancashire police into the accident, as saying.