One of two men killed in a light aircraft crash was on a gifted introductory flight experience, an air accident report has said. Pilot Edward Browne, 66, and passenger James Litchfield, 64, died when the Hoffmann H36 Dimona crashed shortly after take-off at Darley Moor Airfield, Derbyshire, on 8 April 2025.

The Soviet-designed military transport turboprop aircraft crashed into a cliff, sources at the scene told state news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti.

The Soviet-designed military transport turboprop aircraft crashed into a cliff, sources at the scene told state news agencies.

An 82-year-old pilot died of a heart attack after a plane crash which investigators believe may have been caused by a mechanical failure. The green and white Taylor Monoplane G-AYSH crashed at Nayland Airfield, off Campions Hill, on the Suffolk-Essex border, at 09:36 BST on 17 June.

The ministry said it believes a technical malfunction caused the crash, and that there was no “damaging interference” with the plane.