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A Channel Islands search and rescue plane has crash landed on the north coast of Jersey while searching for two missing fishermen. A search-and-rescue plane with five people on board has crash-landed on the north coast of Jersey while searching for two missing fishermen.
Reports from the scene, at Devil's Hole, in St Mary, suggest its crew may be injured but survived the crash. The five people onboard the twin-engine propeller plane, which crash-landed just after 19:15 GMT in woodland close to the Priory Inn, at Devil's Hole, St Mary, are said to be uninjured.
It is understood the two fishermen - who had been missing for several hours - remain unaccounted for. Emergency services are at the scene.
It is understood the two people reported missing off the coast in a dinghy remain unaccounted for.
'Miraculous escape'
John Gripton, managing editor of BBC Radio Jersey, said: "There are reports that engines on the aircraft failed and that the plane used the twinkling lights of the pub in the darkness on the north coast as a target to try to land the craft on dry land.
"Five people were on board and miraculously they appear to be ok and uninjured, and currently with the emergency services at the pub."
Jersey Police confirmed they had received a call from the Airport Fire Service and coastguard, who reported issues with the Channel Island Air Search (CIAS) aircraft at about 19:15.
Mr Gripton said the crash happened during gale-force winds and torrential rain in a very rural part of the island and as such it was pitch black. He said emergency services were continuing to search the surrounding woodland.
John Dowling, manager of the Priory Inn, said the five who were in the plane came into his pub with police after they had landed.
'Shaken up'
"No-one was injured, everyone was all right and that is the main thing, isn't it?" he said.
"Of course they were shaken up.
"You would be too if you'd just crash landed a plane, wouldn't you?"
A number of vessels have been searching for the two people missing at sea, including the volunteer CIAS aircraft based in neighbouring Guernsey.
French aircraft have now joined the search, said Mr Gripton, and two ships carrying coastguard and RNLI search teams from Alderney and Jersey are continuing the search.