Flying instructor, 80, dies alongside his 16-year-old student in a light aircraft crash near Loch Lomond
Ian Haggis, affectionately known as 'the Flying Haggis', was in charge of the 1981 Piper Tomahawk when it came down in a field north of Drymen at about 4.45pm on Friday. The teenager may have been taking a half-term flying lesson. The plane left Glasgow Airport at 4.17pm and stopped transmitting 20 minutes later. Air Accidents Investigation Branch officials are now examining the wreckage.
Haggis began by instructing RAF Scholarship students, later flying air taxis and air ambulances.
Friend Joseph Thompson paid tribute online: 'My good friend and instructor Ian Haggis was killed.'
The aircraft, registered to Leading Edge Flight Training, had flown to Newport-on-Tay earlier that day.
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