Three people have died after a light aircraft carrying people preparing for a parachute jump crashed into fields.
Police alerted the Devon fire service at 6.06pm on Sunday after receiving reports from members of the public who saw the Cessna 206 single-engine plane come down between Beacon and Luppitt near Honiton, Devon.
A Fire Service spokeswoman said that two men and a woman died in the accident and another three men were seriously injured.
The injured were taken by air ambulance to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, the spokeswoman added.
She said that the aircraft had taken off earlier from Dunkeswell airfield in Devon.
The spokeswoman added: "They were up there for a parachute jump and all we knew when we were arriving at the scene was that the plane had contained five parachutists and a pilot.
"But we did not know if they had made the jump or not and now it appears that they had not."
The spokeswoman said that the ages or identities of the six people were not yet known.
She added that the Air Accidents Investigation branch had been informed of the crash.
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