Two suffer serious burns as light aircraft crashes

Two men were airlifted to hospital with serious burns after their light aircraft crashed yesterday.

The accident happened in a field near Wolds Lane, Wolvey, Warwicks, about 4pm yesterday.

The West Midlands Ambulance Service said its crews arrived to find the aircraft had been destroyed completely by fire. “Two men had managed to get out and had found help at a nearby farm where workers were cooling their burns with water,” a spokesman said. “Both men were anaesthetised at the scene and were airlifted separately to the Regional Burns Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.”