Two dead after plane crashes on Lisbon beach

A light plane was forced to make an emergency landing on a packed beach near Lisbon, killing a man and an eight-year-old girl who were sunbathing, authorities said.

Hundreds of sunbathers were on the beach at Caparica, 20 miles south of Lisbon, and witnesses said some sunbathers ran into the sea to avoid the plane.

The National Maritime Authority said a man and girl died on the beach. It did not give the man’s age, but local media reported he was 50.

Thesmallaircraft,reportedly a Cessna and carrying two people, appeared to be in difficulty and wobbled as it skimmed low over the sunbathers – scattering them and spreading panic on the beach.

The plane appeared to have a partly broken left wing, which hung lower than the right wing.