By Mark Duell PUBLISHED: 17:29 EST, 8 October 2012 | UPDATED: 19:56 EST, 8 October 2012 Bungling air traffic controllers misunderstood a piece of aircraft jargon which could have prevented a 122mph mid-air collision that killed five people, an inquest heard today. Pilot Brian Normington, 70, was killed when his kit-built Rand KR-2 one-seater aircraft crashed into a twin-engine Cessna 402C plane 700ft above Coventry Airport four years ago in August 2008. Sophie Hastings, 28 - the pilot of the Cessna, codenamed G-EYES - and her three colleagues, John ‘Harvey’ Antrobus, 28, James Beagley, 34, and Sybille Gautrey, 33, also died.
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Pilot Brian Normington, 70, was killed when his Rand KR-2 aircraft crashed
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Hit a twin-engine Cessna 402C plane 700ft above Coventry Airport in 2008
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Cessna pilot Sophie Hastings, 28, also died along with her three colleagues
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They were John Antrobus, 28, James Beagley, 34, and Sybille Gautrey, 33
Killed: John ‘Harvey’ Antrobus (left), 28, and James Beagley (right), 34, were also on the @placeholder which crashed