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Last Updated: Sunday, 6 June, 2004, 10:37 GMT 11:37 UK
Hurricane loses wheel on airfield
A Hurricane in a hangar
The pilot who was flying the Hurricane was unhurt
A Hurricane lost a wheel when its undercarriage collapsed shortly after landing at an air show.

One of the plane's wheels buckled as it was taxiing at the Duxford airfield in Cambridgeshire.

The plane, based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, was getting ready for the D-Day anniversary air show organised by the Imperial War Museum.

A spokeswoman for the museum said the pilot climbed out of the plane unhurt.

"The plane had landed and was taxiing along the airfield when one of its wheels seems to have buckled," she said.

"The plane is being examined now to see what kind of damage has been done."


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