AN INVESTIGATION is under way after a pilot was killed when a light aircraft crashed into a field.
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a pilot was killed when a light aircraft crashed into a field.
The 60-year-old man died at the scene after the single-seater plane came down in Great Oakley, near Harwich.
An air ambulance and a land crew were called to the field off Harwich Road just before 10.45am on Saturday.
An East of England Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “We were alerted to what appeared to be a crash landing.
“We dispatched several resources, but sadly the 60-year-old man who was the sole occupant of the single-seater aircraft was declared deceased at the scene.”
An Essex Police spokesman said the pilot, who has not been officially named, was believed to be from the Clacton area.
He said: ``Police were contacted by the ambulance service shortly before 11am on Saturday, following reports that an aircraft had crashed in a field off Harwich Road. Officers arrived at the scene and discovered the body of a man with debris.”
An Air Accidents Investigation Branch spokeswoman said two inspectors attended the crash scene and an investigation was under way.
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