Wednesday, August 28, 2024 -Two people survived an unusual plane crash in England.
A pilot and a passenger were onboard a
“light aircraft” when it crashed over a busy road in a small village south-east
of Stroud, Gloucestershire, at around 4.45 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Aug. 27,
Gloucestershire police shared in a statement on Facebook.
"We have had a report that a light
aircraft landed on the A419 Stroud Road near Aston Down airfield in Frampton
Mansell," police stated. "There were two occupants on board who will
be assessed by the ambulance service, and it is understood that no other
vehicles were involved."
A photo taken by Mila Vukelić of the crash showed the pilot and passenger
sitting in the aircraft as it lay across the road in front of oncoming cars
with shrubs caught in the wings and a broken tail end.
A spokesperson for the South Western
Ambulance Service NHS Trust said in a statement to PEOPLE: “We sent one
double-crewed land ambulance, an air ambulance, a rapid response vehicle and an
operations officer to the scene. We conveyed one patient by land ambulance to
Southmead Hospital and one patient to Gloucester Royal Hospital."
One
witness said the plane “nosedived” in the crash.
“[It] looked like it stalled and
nosedived into the main road,” they told Gloucestershire Live.
A second witness caught in traffic in
the incident told BBC Radio Gloucestershire, "We could see what
looked like a glider. My stepdaughter who's a nurse stayed at the scene to help
out. The traffic is chaos up there.”
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