Sea crash pilot search called off
Rescuers have decided not to resume a search for the missing pilot of a light aircraft that crashed in the English Channel off the coast of Dungeness in Kent, yesterday. The wreckage of the plane has been recovered.
Crash aircraft was heading to Le Touquet
British and French emergency teams are responding to reports a light aircraft has crashed into the English Channel.The American-registered plane carrying one person on board came down about 15 miles off Dungeness in Kent at around 2.30pm.
A cross-Channel search and rescue operation has been launched involving both English and French teams, including a French helicopter and the Dungeness RNLI lifeboat.
The alarm was raised after the single-engine light aircraft, which was heading from London to Le Touquet, was overdue, a spokesman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said
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