The court heard as a result he set off with 23 gallons, instead of 30 gallons of fuel. The prosecution said Mr Campbell had made an error when filling his US-manufactured plane with fuel before take-off, apparently miscalculating the conversion from US gallons into litres. The court heard Mr Campbell, from Battle in East Sussex, was flying from Sheffield in Yorkshire to Shoreham. The family who lived in the house in West Street were out at the time. His twin-engine Piper Seneca plane came down in a street near the airport, partially demolishing the house on which it landed.
The 54-year-old was flying into Shoreham Airport near Brighton in April 2001 when the crash happened. The plane caused severe damage to the house it landed onĪ brain surgeon who crashed his plane into a house near a Sussex airport had miscalculated how much fuel he had on board, a court has been told.Ĭhichester Crown Court heard Donald Campbell, who is accused of endangering safety, had wrongly converted US gallons into litres and ran out of fuel as a result.
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