Pip Nix's father Gerry Davitt, 42, and her grandfather Larry Davitt, 67, died after their aircraft burst into flames and crashed into a field in 1999. She admits she'd been a 'bad flyer' ever since the tragedy but bravely jumped 17,000ft out of a plane to raise money for charity over the weekend. Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
Pip, 35, said: "It was incredible - it dawned on me when I was dangling my legs out of the plane, that I hadn't really prepared myself for this part. The free fall was amazing and then the parachute when up and you just swoop from way way to the other way because of the wind. "I think my father and grandfather would be so overwhelmingly proud - I know for a fact I felt my father was on the plane because of all the bumps and wobbles.
It was like he was giving the plane a nudge just for a laugh. "I think they would be really proud though and when we was descending, I called out the names of my loved ones that I had lost." Larry and Gerry were on the aircraft alongside Paul Blackburn and Kenneth Moore when the plane crashed onto a field in Hemingbrough in North Yorkshire .
Advertisement Advertisement Pip says her father was flying the plane when 'several things came together' that meant there was nothing he could do to prevent the crash. She was still in primary school when it happen.