One person has died and another has been airlifted to hospital after a light aircraft crashed near an airfield in Norfolk, emergency services have said.
The plane came down by the Hardwick airfield, which is about 10 miles south of Norwich, at about 3.30pm on Sunday. It burst into flames and firefighters found one person had died, Norfolk fire and rescue service said.
A spokeswoman for the service said: “We received a report at 3.36pm that a light aircraft of some sort had just crashed. When the first appliance arrived, it was confirmed that [the plane] was on fire and, unfortunately, we have had it confirmed that there was one deceased and one airlifted to hospital.
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