Two friends who died when their light aircraft crashed into the English Channel were not qualified to fly through cloud, investigators said.
Former mechanic Brian Statham, from Solihull, took off from a Stratford-upon-Avon airfield with his pal and co-pilot Lee Rogers, bound for northern France on the morning of Saturday, April 2.
The duo - who had over 20 years' flying time between them - were flying a Piper Cherokee Arrow II (G-EGVA) on a route with cloud forecast.
