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Last Updated: Sunday, 29 August, 2004, 09:49 GMT 10:49 UK
Fatal plane crash men 'critical'
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Two men remain critically ill in intensive care with severe burns after a plane crash which killed a third man on board a small aircraft on Saturday.

The Tobago light aircraft burst into flames after it crashed into a hedge on the perimeter of Bournemouth Airport as it came back into land.

It had just taken off from Bournemouth to take the pilot and passengers back to Guernsey when it developed problems.

It narrowly missed the packed Alice in Wonderland theme park.

The two survivors were airlifted to the specialist burns unit at Salisbury's Odstock Hospital where they remain critically ill in intensive care.

Dorset Police say there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the crash.

A post-mortem investigation on the dead man, who has not been named but is understood to come from Guernsey, is planned for next week.




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