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'Casualties' as airshow plane crashes into cars on A27 at Shoreham | |
(34 minutes later) | |
A Hawker Hunter plane has crashed into several vehicles after coming down at Shoreham Airshow in West Sussex. | |
Sussex Police said there are several casualties, but could not give details on their condition. | |
The plane crashed into vehicles on the nearby A27. The road is likely to remain closed for several hours. | |
Eyewitness Stephen Jones said the plane was performing a loop but did not complete the manoeuvre and crashed. | |
He said: "The aeroplane involved is a Hawker Hunter T mark 7. And he'd just begun his flying display. | |
"He'd gone up into a loop and as he was coming out of the loop I just thought, you're too low, you're too low, pull up. | |
"And he flew straight into the ground either on or very close to the A27, which runs past the airport." | |
One eyewitness, tweeting as Jon B, said: "It (the plane) turned from the north by Lancing College, went to go low towards the airfield and went behind some trees below where I was. | |
"Then there was a crunch sound and a ball of flames and thick black smoke came up from the ground." | |
Shoreham Airshow also tweeted: "There has been a major incident outside the airfield boundary. | |
"The emergency services are responding. Updates will follow when available." | |
In a statement police said: "At about 1.20pm the aircraft hit several cars on the A27 just to the north of Shoreham Airport, where an air display is taking place. | |
"The aircraft ended up in a bush. There have been several casualties but we have no further information on these at the moment." |