21 Feb, 2020 @ 18:01
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One dead in plane crash in Spain after pilot tries to make emergency landing

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THE pilot of a small plane has been killed when he crashed while trying to make an emergency landing in Spain.

He had reported mechanical problems and was trying to make it to Noain-Pamplona airport (Navarra), when tragedy struck at 6:20pm yesterday.

The plane, which had taken off from Sabadell (Barcelona), crashed into a street at Number 4 Paseo de la Estación and burst into flames.

The aircraft came down a short distance from the runway, between the Mocholi industrial estate and the town of Noain, next to a railway track, according to the Regional Government.

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DESTRUCTION: The scene of the plane crash in Navarra

Shortly before the accident the pilot, who has not been named, had put in a distress signal saying he had a problem in one of his engines.

Airport firefighters were alerted, but the pilot never made it to the runway.

The aircraft crashed into a car parked on the public road.

The occupant of a nearby house escaped unharmed.

Airport firefighters put out the blaze in the plane and recovered the body.

They had to wait for electricity company engineers to cut off the power to a line that was knocked onto the car before they could extinguish the flames that destroyed the vehicle.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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