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Maurice Kirk: “Pilot to continue his crash course across Africa” 24 Dec. “The Times”
Maurice Kirk has endured a series of mishaps but denies being reckless.
He has crashed four times, been detained at gunpoint twice and dropped his sat-nav system down a drain, but a British pensioner attempting to fly the length of Africa insists that none of it is his fault.
Maurice Kirk, 71, blamed fellow aviators in the Vintage Air Rally for reneging on a promise to carry his luggage, which includes a tuxedo and top hat, in their planes.
The former drinking buddy of Oliver Reed, the late actor, said that he was forced to put his bags on his lap in his 1943 single-engine Piper Cub. He also had a long-range fuel tank installed above his head which meant he couldn’t see his compass.
“It meant I was flying with an awful lot of extra baggage…
he told The Times from Nairobi, where he is waiting for a new propellor to enable him to continue his journey South.
He has used his smartphone to navigate but said he struggled to find some airstrips. The former vet, from South Wales, had already crashed in Cannes on his way to the rally’s start, when his engine cut out above the runway. “It did it again in Khartoum,” he said. He left his maps in a hotel room and dropped his GPS navigation system down a drain, but denied suggestions that he was reckless. Sam Rutherford, the rally’s organiser, said that Mr Kirk was an “extremely good aviator” who could land in a small field on the side of a mountain, but he asked him to leave the Vintage Air Rally because he was dangerous. “There is nothing that annoys me more than somebody who doesn’t take basic preparations and precautions in order not to have someone else putting their lives at risk [with a search and rescue operation],” Mr Rutherford said.
Spectators turn out to see the planes of the Vintage Air Rally at Nairobi national parkThomas Mukoya/Reuters
He said Mr Kirk had crashed off the end of Khartoum’s runway. Mr Kirk said that was nonsense and he had “cleared it on purpose to be out of the way”.
He has refused to leave the rally. Asked about Mr Rutherford, he said: “I hope I never see him again or I will punch him on the nose.”
Mr Kirk, who was arrested in the US in 2008 after landing too close to George W Bush’s Texas ranch, boasted about “flying below camel level” on a trip to Australia. He was rescued by the US Coastguard after crashing in the Caribbean. Mr Kirk crashed twice in South Sudan. The first time he punctured a wheel. The second time he ripped part of the undercarriage and a propellor.
None of this has dampened his determination to complete the 8,000-mile journey. The plane was loaded onto a truck and driven to Lokichoggio in Northern Kenya. “I just need two people to help me put the wings back on,” Mr Kirk said. “If the engine runs I am heading straight to Cape Town.”
Only 15 of the 22 aircraft that started the rally have made it to Cape Town. A Boeing-Stearman biplane crashed in Kenya. A Tiger Moth was blown into one of the support helicopters in Botswana, damaging both beyond repair. Mr Kirk said he planned to ship his aircraft, Liberty Girl II, from Cape Town to the Falklands then fly the length of the Americas. He was banned from the US in 2008 but believes Donald Trump will welcome him in. Maurice’s FACEBOOK BLOCKED (South Wales Police?) so videos on You Tube and his current tel +254713600213
WHO’S JOINING MAURICE FOR CHRISTMAS LUNCH AT STANLEY HOTEL?
Jerome Starkey, Africa Correspondent
A 72-year-old Briton trying to fly the length of Africa in a single-seater vintage plane with no compass, map or satellite tracker has crash-landed…A 72-year-old Briton trying to fly the length of Africa in a single-seater vintage plane with no compass, map or satellite tracker has crash-landed…A 72-year-old Briton trying to fly the length of Africa in a single-seater vintage plane with no…
November 26 2016
Jerome Starkey, Nairobi | Lucy Bannerman
An eccentric British pilot has been kicked off a race to fly the length of Africa over allegations that his airmanship was irresponsible and…An eccentric British pilot has been kicked off a race to fly the length of Africa over allegations that his airmanship was irresponsible and…An eccentric British pilot has been kicked off a race to fly the length of Africa over…
November 24 2016
source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/…/56d01e56-c93a-11e6-89fb-efb68b0…
MAURICE KIRK AFRICAN ORDEAL: “I WON’T give up, says Captain Calamity: Eccentric aviator, 72, vows to continue perilous journey across Africa despite crash-landing in a warzone, getting robbed and being stricken by malaria” 11 DEC. 16 .Maurice Kirk crash landed in South Sudan, where he was robbed by locals
By Ned Donovan For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:13, 11 December 2016 | Updated: 01:13, 11 December 2016
He has crash-landed in one of the most dangerous places on Earth, been robbed and beaten up by bandits and jailed by the local regime, and is now dangerously ill after contracting malaria.
But intrepid 72-year-old aviator Maurice Kirk has vowed to recover his battered vintage aircraft, fix her up and continue his perilous journey across Africa.
His crash in South Sudan last week was the second time Mr Kirk and his single-engine 1943 Piper Club have come unstuck on the 8,000-mile Vintage Air Rally from Crete to South Africa. He previously went missing, only to touch down in Ethiopia, where the authorities accused him of illegally entering the country’s airspace.
Mr Kirk, who has already found himself in many a perilous situation – not least as a close drinking buddy of Oliver Reed – admits that his current circumstances are ‘a bit of a jam’.
Speaking exclusively to The Mail on Sunday from his sick bed in South Sudan, he said: ‘I’m staying here, and I’m going to rescue her.’ He’s affectionately referring to his Piper Cub, which lost its propeller and one of its legs when it crashed near the town of Narus.
After emerging from the wreckage, Mr Kirk was dragged away by bandits. ‘I was roughed up by the locals, who dragged me through brambles that have terrible thorns,’ he said. ‘I have deep cuts all over my legs. They stole my mobile phone, my camera and my emergency beacon.’
He was left for dead by his robbers, but police arrived and seized him for not having a visa – as if he would know where he was going to crash.
They were surprised to see a British pensioner in one of the most dangerous areas of a nation that has been in the grip of civil war since gaining independence in 2011 – and were unsure what to do. So Mr Kirk says they forced him to ‘sit under a tree for two days’ before he was picked up by the South Sudanese army, who put him in a lorry for five hours, then locked him in a cell under armed guard.
‘They put me in a concrete building, which I later found out was a police station, with 27 security guards watching my every move,’ he said. ‘I was incredibly shaken up, and there were flies everywhere.’
In the jail, in the town of Kapoeta, he fell badly ill with sepsis and malaria, with his temperature soaring to a near-fatal 106F (41C). While there, he was summoned to meet the area’s governor – who has a flock of pet ostriches, according to Mr Kirk – who ordered that the lost pilot be flown to South Sudan’s capital, Juba, with a military escort. He is now holed up in a Western hotel in the city.
‘The army don’t trust me and won’t let me return to my aeroplane,’ Mr Kirk said. ‘One way or another, I am in a bit of a jam.’ Nevertheless, he is determined to continue his journey.
However, his passport has been seized by authorities and the phone that was stolen was his main navigational tool. And he used his maps to make cigarettes while in jail, once again showing his renegade – or reckless – spirit. ‘The best use I have found for these charts is to be smoked with a bit of tobacco,’ he said.
‘People have told me I have to get out of here. I could end up spending two months in jail in horrific conditions’
He said he was trying to get a visa to leave the country and continue his adventure, ‘but because I didn’t have a visa to get in, the minister for immigration told me to bugger off’.
The South Sudan government and the British Embassy are thought to be trying to convince Mr Kirk to return home to Britain, and the Foreign Office says it is providing ‘support’. But Mr Kirk has other ideas and is vowing to rejoin the Vintage Air Rally route – despite having been kicked off the official adventure in a row over his rebellious approach.
The other participants – who had been told to pack ‘full black tie and a beginners’ guide to Swahili’ for their trip – have already made it to Zimbabwe.
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Image caption Maurice Kirk was taking part in a vintage air rally flying across Africa when he was reported missing
23 Nov. 16
A 72-year-old British pilot who went missing while attempting to fly a 1940s plane the length of Africa has been found alive, his son has said.
Maurice Kirk, who lives in Bristol, was part of a vintage air rally flying from Crete to Cape Town. A search and rescue operation was launched after the aircraft went missing on Monday somewhere between Sudan and Ethiopia. Mr Kirk’s son, Charles Kirk, said he had been told he had now been found. Vintage Air Rally confirmed he has been found and said: “All participants including the hitherto ‘missing’ Maurice Kirk are safe and accounted for.”
Mr Kirk, who also has links to Taunton in Somerset and the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales, went missing on a three-hour leg of the cross-African flight from southern Sudan into western Ethiopia.
Organisers of the Vintage Air Rally said he had been asked to withdraw from the rally because of a lack of satellite tracking or a working compass on his 1943 Piper Cub plane. He previously reported suffering two engine failures, but had apparently decided to continue.
Image copyright Vintage Air Rally Image caption The Vintage Air Rally flies from Crete to Cape Town
On its Facebook page, Vintage Air Rally said earlier that Mr Kirk departed Ad-Damazin, Sudan at approximately 14:00 local time (11:00 GMT) on Monday on the three hour flight to Gambella, Ethiopia. The statement added that Mr Kirk had sent no radio communications or satellite tracking at any time during the flight and his location had been unknown. Organisers said they believed he made a precautionary landing before sunset. The rally describes itself as “following in the footsteps of the pioneering flights in the 1920s” connecting “some of the most beautiful and evocative points in Africa”.
Image caption The self-styled ‘Flying Vet’ is originally from Somerset and has a home in the Vale of Glamorgan
[I’m sure MK will agree that some of this “text” below, and only some, of this is true…but what is remarkably dishonest is the “Leaked MAPPA REPORT on Maurice Kirk” shown on this site on 13/11/2013: https://butlincat.com/2011/11/13/the-4-leaked-m-a-p-p-a-pages-concerning-m-kirk/ …ed.] Once described as the “bad boy” of the veterinarian profession, the Bristol University graduate and self-dubbed “Flying Vet” is also an amateur pilot and a former drinking friend of the late actor Oliver Reed. Since 1995, he has had a string of court appearances including for hurling abuse at police while he tended to an injured dog on a beach and on another occasion for refusing to give a sample when stopped on suspicion of drink-driving. He was kicked out of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for “disgraceful conduct” in 2002 following his court cases. Most famously he was arrested for landing a replica World War One biplane on private land near American President George W Bush’s Texan Ranch.
source: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-38075255
No reference
5 The details of the matter being challenged South Wales Police gave instruction to Swansea prison staff to remove the claimant in his wheel chair from the prison van and then someone lied to Mr Justice Gilbart on 21st January 2015 that their MAPPA 3/3 victim was refusing to enter the prison van. The claimant’s sister was quick to inform the welsh court that this was a lie. Record of claimant’s complaint was applied for to be preserved, anticipating the usual conduct to delay, in that he even heard the direction over prison ‘walkie talkies’ to remove the claimant from the van thereby preventing his attending Cardiff Crown Cort sitting as The Administrative Court. The case stated appeal was in pursuit to the over-turning of his prison sentence regarding the said police refusing to allow the claimant to have his passport returned by the Cardiff prison needed to obtain his BS614159 case records stored in France for safe keeping. Decades of police bullying and failure to investigate crimes committed against him, as in his 4th Action 7CF07345, are being unlawfully delayed due to exacerbate his medical condition. 6 The details of any interested parties include HMP Swansea, South Wales Police, HMC&TS (Wales), NHS (Wales) and GEOamey Custodial Service
Conduct contrary to Article 6 and the laws of natural justice have been breached by the prison’s actions and failure to disclose both police records of the criminal matter leading to the 21st January 2015 appeal re ‘case stated’. Failed disclosure of claimant’s custody records from both HM Prisons Swansea and Cardiff, Geoamey and HMCS&TS(Wales) court records is a common theme throughout twenty-five years of the claimant and family’s suffering. Accentuated in this Swansea prison incident (3rd breach of purported restraining order) in that, on 1st Dec 2009 the clerk of the Cardiff magistrates court, Michael Williams, was ordered to both destroy part of the Cardiff magistrates court file and fabricate the remaining record but CCRC intervention finds the claimant had NOT even been served the restraining order. The purported wording indicates the preventing the claimant’s publishing of the doctor’s indiscretions along with the then CPS prosecutor, in the conspiracy, to pervert the course of justice, one David Gareth Evans (photo to follow). Dr Tegwyn Mel Williams was black-mailed by South Wales Police, while in collusion with Professor Rodger Wood of Swansea University who, himself, also contributed fabricated Caswell clinic medical records in that their victim should be sectioned to Ashworth High Security Prison, indefinitely, due to his ‘significant brain damage’. The police purpose was to thus kill off the claimant’s formidable claims against Cardiff’s cabal culminating in the Chief Constable’s fabricated ‘machine-gun’ conspiracy in the hope in having her adversary in court, shot dead.
Disclose court, custody and MAPPA and IRIS surveillance records etc etc. 9 ADR proposals This doesn’t seem appropriate in this particular case, unless the other respective parties have alternative proposals.
With the police, having successfully getting the claimant struck off the veterinary register in 2002 on a ‘tissue of lies’ when none of which related to animals, from 2002 onwards had served on their victim no less than seven times HORT 1 traffic infringement tickets to produce his driving documents. On each occasion the police were told, in appropriate language, the claimant had no intention, what so ever, in producing any driving documents. The claimant therefore seeks disclosure of police records concerning each of the 7/8 incidents (one outside Wales) when each HORT 1 was torn up by the claimant, often in the face of each welsh police officer to hear nothing more. These records are also needed in the ongoing BS614159 and associated claims for damages in the Cardiff County Court and now Taunton Magistrates for the substantive trial this welsh conduct appears to have now caused leading to the claimant’s arrest and custody. Taunton magistrates, tomorrow, may enquire as to why the claimant was never prosecuted for his actions for an ‘absolute offence’ seven times? This Parade, Taunton, incident was immediately followed by the two Somerset police officers taking instructions from the South Wales Police and Dolmans, solicitors for them defending in the civil claims. No seizure notice was therefore served on the claimant for his WW2 Piper Cub, trailer and car parked in The Mall the day before or again in the centre of Taunton as, it appears, the habit of Welsh police irregularities have been ordered on others in England. No HORT 1 was served on the claimant either as it was clear, following instructions from dolmans via welsh police, he is exempt of the law, the rule of law- an expression alien to the South Wales authorities.
As above and a lot more.
See Kirk Aviation business card ‘find me under the wing of the cub’ [email protected] 13 Proposed reply date I would invite you to respond well before fourteen days of receipt of this letter as it is abundantly clear that this matter concerning South Wales Police withholding prison video and police contemporaneous record, to deliberately delay ‘due process’ of 24years civil proceedings, has already been brought into question by Lord Justice Sweeney this year and requires your immediate attention. Yours faithfully MAURICE JOHN KIRK BVSc PS R U Welsh?…..then read up who first rolled hot chocolate for the first Yeatman’s (spelt wrong) Watford chocolate factory where I was lost, for a long time, imagine, at 7 years of age and where my grand dad also created ‘chocolate buttons’ and converted plain cane sugar ( glucose/fructose) into invert sugar and ‘Sunny Spread’
The local newspaper, face book , twitter and other such social media all seem to have varying accounts far from the truth. source: https://mauricejohnkirk.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/one-of-our-aircraft-is-missing/
http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/14800309.Flying_vet_appears_in_court/?ref=mr&lp=1 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. MUST SEE! VIDEO: “ROUGH JUSTICE” from Dialect Radio, with MK’s sister telling of the background to MK’s longstanding persecution + targeting, programme made during MK’s last extremely questionable 18 months in custody, mostly HMP Cardiff… [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c3tg6pDdR8?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent]
WANTED both as witnesses to give evidence, on oath, in both HHJ Seys Llewellyn QC’s 10 ongoing 23 years of civil damages claims and various private prosecutions, currently blocked by Cardiff courts, also against the South Wales Police and /or their Agents
Geoamey’s custody manager, on the wrong end of the handcuffs, is the key witness in the next most available court hearing by his simply revealing all records of 1st December 2011 harassment conviction hearing from his employer, his own diary, court file, court clerk, the police in my ‘gate arrest’ upon release and London’s authority’s records surrounding the unlawful manner in which they conspired with the Welsh cabal to have the Musa’s six Nigerian children successfully snatched by the Haringey Council by preventing my evidence, on 28th November 2011, being given.
Extract of psychiatric report written by someone neither qualified on purported August 2009 brain scans nor even had examined his MAPPA 3/3 victim before recommending the police prisoner, for alleged ‘trading in machine-guns’, be served a s35 incarceration under the 1983 Mental Health Act that immediately prevented either his name being replaced on the veterinary register nor right to pilot any aircraft in UK air space
Professor Rodger Wood who is a major cause of this protracted injustice simply due to his plain arrogance and having got away with, so far, his falsifying 2009 psychology reports
A library recording this lot’s conduct on a once veterinary surgeon so stupid to be in Wales
John Graham Esq has just obtained a passport in order to visit South Island NZ to trace the exact whereabouts of the couple for two international witness summonses service.
Meantime, I will have a particular pleasure in serving a lot more summonses on Professor Rodger Wood of Swansea University and his various devil-worshipping cronies, past and present senior police officers and Crown Prosecution lawyers, all of whom seriously intimidated Dr Tegwyn Williams to have written that Caswell Clinic MAPPA 3/3 medical report, put before His Honour Judge Neil Bidder QC on 2nd December 2009, in the first place.
Fabricated in order to avoid their already concocted machine-gun trial, by both he and CPS prosecution barrister, now judge, Richard Thomlow, both recommending their victim be further sectioned but this time to Ashworth high security psychiatric hospital, IPP indefinitely, in order to avoid any further proof of gross police misfeasance ‘going public’ as in the South Wales Police ‘garrotte’ HRH Prince Charles affair from emerging from civil claims.
to be continued……
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