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An investigation is under way after a man died and two people, one of them a boy, were critically injured when a light aircraft crashed at Caernarfon Airport in Gwynedd.An investigation is under way after a man died and two people, one of them a boy, were critically injured when a light aircraft crashed at Caernarfon Airport in Gwynedd.
Firefighters cut the man from the wreckage and he was pronounced dead at the scene of Sunday morning's crash.Firefighters cut the man from the wreckage and he was pronounced dead at the scene of Sunday morning's crash.
A man in his 60s suffered "serious multiple lower limb injuries" and the boy had head and abdomen injuries.A man in his 60s suffered "serious multiple lower limb injuries" and the boy had head and abdomen injuries.
North Wales Police said the three are from a family in Lancashire. North Wales Police said the three were from the same family in Lancashire.
The aircraft flipped onto its roof on a runway at Dinas Dinlle, and experts from the Department for Transport's Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) were sent to the scene on Sunday to start a preliminary inquiry.The aircraft flipped onto its roof on a runway at Dinas Dinlle, and experts from the Department for Transport's Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) were sent to the scene on Sunday to start a preliminary inquiry.
Police are appealing for witnesses who saw the plane as it approached the runway to get in touch as the area is on the coast and is popular with visitors. Police have appealed for witnesses who saw the plane as it approached the runway to get in touch as the area is on the coast and is popular with visitors.
On Monday morning it remained where it crashed landed, with police still at the scene. On Monday morning the site remained closed with police at the scene.
Witnesses say the Piper Cherokee single-engine aircraft appeared to clip trees as it approached the runway.Witnesses say the Piper Cherokee single-engine aircraft appeared to clip trees as it approached the runway.
On Sunday, local cafe owner Dyfed Williams said: "We were preparing to open and there was a lot of activity with five fire engines, an ambulance and then the police [passing], and we realised it must have been something serious. Gwawr Bell was staying at the caravan park next door to the airfield with her husband and children and another family.
"A lot of local people came down to see what was going on and obviously we are thinking the worse. "We'd stayed there a couple of times before and the first time I did think that the planes came in low over our heads to land, but then you get used to seeing them," she told BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf.
"The airfield has been here since the Second World War and it's now busy with pleasure trips and popular with small aircraft and microlights." "(On Sunday) I heard this plane come over and then there was a big bang, nothing, and then another big bang.
"My husband and the children had seen this little aeroplane come in and it clipped some trees, just caught the bottom of the aeroplane on the trees and then the plane came down on the other side of the hedge.
"Someone told us that the pilot had come out so we thought everything was ok.
"Then we heard the sirens and I don't know how many fire engines came, and we realised it must be worse that we thought."
Robert Jones is a member of the Mona Flying Club, and a regular visitor to the airport.
"Every airfield gets the odd small accident but I can't remember anyone being injured in Caernarfon (Airport) in the quarter of a century I've flown in and out of there," he said.
"On a day like yesterday there would have been 30 maybe 40 planes visiting Caernarfon from all over Britain. It is very popular."
Eight crews from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service were sent to the scene.Eight crews from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service were sent to the scene.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said the man in his 60s and the boy were taken to hospital at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor while firefighters worked to free the trapped man.The Welsh Ambulance Service said the man in his 60s and the boy were taken to hospital at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor while firefighters worked to free the trapped man.
The condition of the two injured people was described on Sunday as critical.The condition of the two injured people was described on Sunday as critical.
Anyone with any information relating to the incident is asked to contact North Wales Police on 101.Anyone with any information relating to the incident is asked to contact North Wales Police on 101.