The aircraft was a PZL-104 Wilga 35A, a Polish fixed-wing landplane, often used for crop spraying. It is “a perfectly serviceable, very robust, utilitarian aeroplane”, said Kieran Daly, an independent aviation consultant. However it also emerged that the same aircraft was involved in another incident four years ago when it was towing a banner. An official report said the 1995 registered plane was landing when there was a sudden “thump” and the plane “staggered” in the air after the banner had been dropped uneventfully

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