TWO airmen in their seventies have escaped fatal injury after their plane flipped upside down whilst landing at a North-East airfield.
The pair of pensioners miraculously freed themselves from the wreckage at Morgansfield air strip, near Fishburn, in County Durham yesterday afternoon.
The pilot, who has not been named, was taken by air ambulance to North Tees Hospital with what are thought to be serious back injuries after he had been unable to stand.
His co-pilot was unharmed.
Fire crews and police from nearby Spennymoor and Sedgefield rushed to the scene near the A177 road at around 3.50pm.
The two-seater Vans RV light aircraft had been flying to the region from North Weald airfield in Essex.
An inquiry has been launched by the Air Investigation Branch.
More to follow.
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