{"id":62918,"date":"2026-10-17T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/boy-and-man-die-in-light-air-craft-crash-near-loch-lomond\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:04:43","slug":"boy-and-man-die-in-light-air-craft-crash-near-loch-lomond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/boy-and-man-die-in-light-air-craft-crash-near-loch-lomond\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy and man die in light air craft crash near Loch Lomond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier the plane had taken off from Cumbernauld Airport at 11:46 on Friday morning, before flying 15 minutes to Glasgow Airport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It stayed there until about 13:00, before doing a two-hour flight north east to Newport on Tay before turning round and heading back to Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was on the ground at the airport for just over an hour before it took off again and started its final flight.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gavin Birch-Williams, managing director of Glasgow Airport, said: &#8220;We are aware of an incident involving a light aircraft that departed from Glasgow Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a deeply tragic event, and the thoughts and heartfelt sympathies from all at Glasgow Airport are with the friends and families affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cky83g11q46lo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier the plane had taken off from Cumbernauld Airport at 11:46 on Friday morning, before flying 15 minutes to Glasgow Airport. It stayed there until about 13:00, before doing a two-hour flight north east to Newport on Tay before turning round and heading back to Glasgow. It was on the ground at the airport for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1050,2810,2596,327,2087,738,5401,5402,417],"class_list":["post-62918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-air","tag-boy","tag-craft","tag-crash","tag-die","tag-light","tag-loch","tag-lomond","tag-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62920,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62918\/revisions\/62920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}