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Two killed in UK air crash

Air Crash - RAF personel killed
Air Crash - RAF personel killed

An RAF reservist and an air cadet were killed when their training aircraft collided with a glider in England.

The two-seater RAF Tutor single-engined plane was believed to have taken off from RAF Benson in Oxfordshire on an air experience flight for the Combined Cadet Force cadet.

The pilot of the glider managed to parachute from his stricken aircraft and he landed safely in fields at Sutton Courtenay, near Abingdon after the collision.

Eye witnesses said the trainer hit the ground nose first with a violent impact.