OAP passengers escape serious injury after plane crashes into hedge

Jane Howdle
Crash landing: The plane lost its left wing in the crash (PA)
Crash landing: The plane lost its left wing in the crash (PA)

Two pensioners escaped a plane crash with just cuts and bruises yesterday, after their light aircraft overshot a runway landing and careered through two hedges.

The crash happened at Halfpenny Green Airport at Bobbington, South Staffordshire, at around 11.40am on Thursday morning.

West Midlands Ambulance Service said the small plane had missed the airstrip, hit one hedge, ploughed across Water Lane and through another hedge. It then came to rest, left wing now missing, in a field.

The plane eventually came to a standstill in a field (PA)
The plane eventually came to a standstill in a field (PA)

Airport firefighters rushed to the scene, where they were soon joined by an ambulance, a paramedic officer and a West Midlands Air Ambulance with a trauma doctor on board.

But both elderly men inside the plane climbed from the wreckage with only a few cuts and bruises.

One of the passengers had a laceration to his head and was taken to hospital as a precaution.

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The plane hit a couple of hedges during its dramatic landing (PA)
The plane hit a couple of hedges during its dramatic landing (PA)
The hedge didn't come out of this well (PA)
The hedge didn’t come out of this well (PA)

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “Thankfully, neither of the occupants were seriously hurt and both were able to get out of the aircraft.

“Considering what had happened to the aircraft, both men had got away remarkably unscathed.”