On 9 January 2019, my friend Simon Moores, a banner towing pilot from Kent, died in an aeroplane crash in Spain.
Simon and a friend of his, David Hockings, had been flying G-OARI, a PA28R Piper Arrow 3, back to the UK from Portugal when it crashed into a mountain south of San Sebastian. My thoughts go out to Simon and David’s family and friends at this terrible time.
Simon was a generous man who regularly invited me to keep him company on banner towing details. Last summer, we travelled together to Sandown on the Isle of Wight in what would be our last flights together.
At the time of Simon’s death I was editing this video, and he told me he was looking forward to its publication. He also shared with me some of his thinking about his fateful flight.
This has been a tremendously difficult video to make. We weren’t close friends, but Simon’s death has hit me really hard. He was extremely enthusiastic about what he did, very supportive, and unfailingly generous. We shall miss him very much.
This video has been released with the consent of Simon’s closest family.
Blue skies Simon.
Here are some older videos I made with Simon