Light aircraft crash in Cambridgeshire

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An air ambulance was scrambled to treat the stricken pilot Credit: PA

A light aircraft crash has left a student pilot with a serious leg injury.

The accident happened at the privately-owned Peterborough Business Airport near Conington, Cambridgeshire, shortly before midday.

The pilot, believed to be a man in his 40s, was taken to hospital with a suspected broken leg and cut face.

An air ambulance was scrambled along with paramedics on the ground, the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust confirmed.

A spokesman for the airfield said: "The incident was simplistic enough in that a student pilot lost control on a go-around, I understand, at the end of the runway and finished up landing on the cropped field adjacent."