Plane crash at Kidlington
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 1:06 pmI heard about this on BBC radio news. No details apart from the fact it was a "light aircraft". Knowing the accuracy of the usual media reports on anything to do with aviation this could be anything from a microlight to a bizjet.
Three killed in plane crash
The plane was "crushed like cardboard"
Three people were killed when their light aircraft flipped upside down and crashed near an airfield after narrowly missing a busy dual-carriageway.
The single-engine four-seater plane came down in a field as it tried to land after a flight from Brussels at Oxford Aiport in Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
Everyone on board was killed in the crash at 1120 GMT on Saturday.
Thames Valley Police say the victims were a French man and woman, both passengers, and a male Belgian pilot.
Sergeant Adrian Wappner told BBC News a "routine flight" had "come into difficulties".
"We have got witnesses and an investigation will be taking place in conjunction with Thames Valley Police," he added.
The aircraft narrowly missed the A44 road next to the airfield, which has been closed by police between Bladon and Langford Lane.
Fire crews and the air ambulance were also at the scene.
The plane nearly came down onto a dual-carriageway next to the airfield
Pilot Mark Coombs, from Charlbury, witnessed the accident from his car as he drove south on the motorway.
He said: "The aircraft appeared to be making a fairly normal approach at about 200-300 yards before the end of the runway.
"It made a level left turn and rolled to the left and then went down, almost spiralling perpendicularly."
A BBC Radio Oxford reporter at the scene said the aircraft had been "crushed like cardboard".
About 30 police officers were in attendance.
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