Stuart Abernethy told BBC Scotland News that he witnessed the last few moments of the plane’s journey from his driveway.
“I was standing in the drive and I heard an aircraft engine over-revving,” he said.
“I looked up… and I saw probably for about the last 10 seconds a light aircraft coming down in a spiral. I didn’t see it land and I didn’t hear anything – but I just saw it vanish from sight.
“There was no smoke, no impact sound or anything like that. And then nothing.”
He added: “It was low and it wasn’t in a sort of dive trajectory, it just literally fell out of the sky in a spiral with the engine revving and then a total silence after that.
“Normally we hear training flights and hear them recover and minutes later they appear and you’re relieved. But there was just deathly silence after that.”
Later, his daughter saw the news about the crash on social media.
“It was very unpleasant to see, it’s scary to see actually – and then when you learn that some people had lost their lives, it’s a very distressing experience.”