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| Plane crashes at Blackbushe airport and ploughs into car sales centre | |
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| A light aircraft has crashed at a private airport in Hampshire and ploughed into a car auction centre. | |
| Emergency services including fire, ambulance and police have all attended the incident at Blackbushe airport, seven miles north-west of Farnborough. | |
| Hampshire fire brigade has sent four pumps and a Land Rover to the scene, while South East Coast Ambulance Service confirmed a “multi-vehicle” response. | |
| A spokeswoman for the service said they have received reports that the aircraft missed the runway and crashed into the British Car Auctions site located at the airport. Other reports suggested the plane had crashed after take-off. | |
| It is unclear how many casualties are involved but videos and images on Twitter show a large fire and plume of smoke in the car park of the dealership. | |
| Small plane crashed into car auction at Blackbushe airport pic.twitter.com/lxHLF76WIf | Small plane crashed into car auction at Blackbushe airport pic.twitter.com/lxHLF76WIf |
| #blackbushe this looks bad. Praying for anyone involved pic.twitter.com/7zZDV5q9mK | #blackbushe this looks bad. Praying for anyone involved pic.twitter.com/7zZDV5q9mK |