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Light aircraft crash-lands at Beccles Airfield

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The plane flipped over on landing but its pilot and passenger were unharmed in the crash

A pilot and passenger escaped unharmed when a light aircraft flipped over after landing at an airfield in Suffolk.

Emergency services were called to Beccles Airfield, in Ellough, at about 13:30 BST.

Suffolk fire service said it received reports a "single-engine light aircraft had crash-landed".

Beccles Airfield was built during World War Two for the US Army Air Forces and has its original concrete runway.

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Firefighters were called to reports of a crash-landing