Crash pilot was Lord-lieutenant

The widow of helicopter pilot Barry Dodd, the Lord-lieutenant for North Yorkshire, said she “will miss him enormously” after he was killed in a helicopter crash.

Frances Dodd confirmed her husband was killed when the aircraft crashed into a field near Aldborough, Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, at 1:23pm on Wednesday.

There were no other passengers on board the Bell 206B helicopter, which took off from nearby Husthwaite, and the cause of the accident is not yet known.