Plane That Cost Man £15,000 And A Wife Crashes It On Test Flight

A model-maker saw the plane that cost him a wife, £15,000 and two years of his life crash in flames on a test flight.

Simon Steggall spent all his spare time building the 16ft replica of a nuclear bomber. His wife got so fed-up with the project they divorced.

Disaster struck as he tried to show an examiner the remote-controlled plane was safe. Moments after take-off it lost power to an engine.

Simon, 45, tried to make an emergency landing at the airfield near Ipswich, Suffolk. But the jet-powered Vickers Valiant crashed into trees and exploded. Link