A woman pilot was unlikely to have received a weather forecast which might have prevented her from crashing her light aircraft in a snow storm, a report has revealed.
Lynne Cook, 53, from Bicester, was making a return flight from Shobdon airfield in Herefordshire, to Enstone airfield near Chipping Norton in November last year, when she got caught in the storm.
An Air Accident Investigation Branch report has revealed that the latest weather forecast before Ms Cook took off would have alerted her to the severe conditions but it was only made available 15 minutes before the flight.
The plane crashed in woodland near Cheltenham, and Ms Cook, secretary of RAF Brize Norton Flying Club, alerted the emergency services with her mobile phone.
She survived but was unable to walk due to a leg injury, and police officers found her 90 minutes after she crashed by using her mobile phone signal.
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