Four survive plane crash in Alderney

Monday 24th August 2009, 2:59PM BST.

The remains of the plane from which the four people were rescued at Alderney Airport yesterday. Picture: James Varley.

FOUR people miraculously escaped when their plane crashed and burst into flames in Alderney yesterday.

Two couples from England, who had flown from Jersey, managed to clamber free of their light aircraft, which came to a halt just 30 yards from a clifftop.

A 40-year-old woman passenger broke her knee and was later flown to Guernsey for treatment, while the other three were treated in hospital in Alderney.

The plane, a Piper Cherokee PA32 light aircraft, crash-landed after it fell out of the sky and careered through a farmer’s field about 500 metres from the airport runway soon after 1 pm.

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