A 16-year-old boy and an 80-year-old man have died following a light aircraft crash near Loch Lomond. Emergency services rushed to the scene of the incident at approximately 16:45 on Friday. Police confirmed that both the boy and the man were pronounced dead at the location and that their next of kin have been notified.
Temporary airspace restrictions have been established over the area while investigators from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch carry out their inquiries.
The aircraft, a Piper Tomahawk II with the registration G-LFSU, departed from Glasgow Airport on Friday afternoon at 16:17. Flight data indicates that the plane stopped transmitting signals at 16:37, a few miles northeast of Drymen in Stirling.
Earlier in the day, the same aircraft had taken off from Cumbernauld Airport at 11:46 on Friday morning before making a 15-minute flight to Glasgow Airport. It remained there until approximately 13:00, embarking on a two-hour flight northeast toward Newport on Tay prior to turning around and returning to Glasgow.
The plane spent just over an hour on the ground at Glasgow Airport before taking off once more for what would become its final journey.