A trainee pilot ‘destroyed’ a building at a County Durham airfield after crashing into it, a report has revealed.
The plane was damaged and the outbuilding at Fishburn Airfield, near Sedgefield, destroyed.
It happened on August 30 when the small aircraft was being moved to the fuel pumps for refuelling, a report published by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch this week said.
The instructor had left the aircraft, a small Piper PA-28-181 which has room for four passengers, to get the fuel pumps ready.
The trainee pilot, described as being “under instruction” opened the throttle to move the plane towards the fuel pumps, but it accelerated and struck an outbuilding.
The building was destroyed, the report said, and the aircraft was damaged.
No one is understood to have been injured.
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