Anglesey plane crash sees ‘light aircraft’ plummet into back garden as police scrambled

Emergency services today scrambled to a plane crash[1] in Wales. The pilot, the only person in the aircraft, has been rushed to hospital via air ambulance after the light aircraft crashed in a garden in the Cae Bach Aur area of Llangefni. A spokesperson for North Wales Police[2] told us: “At 1.44pm today (10 February) we received reports of a light aircraft crashing close to a residential area in Bodffordd, near Llangefni.

Officers attended the location, along with ambulance and fire[3] crews. “The male pilot was the only occupant of the aircraft, and he was subsequently conveyed to hospital by Air Ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries. No other injuries were reported from the scene.”

Witnesses said the plane “nosed dived” out of sight after the engine malfunctioned. One witness said: “It took off, the engine started spluttering and then it started to nose dive whilst spinning and it disappeared out of site.” North Wales Fire Service told North Wales Live[4]: “Our crews are currently attending an incident in the Cae Bach Aur area of Llangefni.

Police officers and ambulance crews are also in attendance. We ask that the public please avoid the area whilst we remain at the scene.” A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called today at 1:42pm to reports of an incident at Bodffordd, Anglesey.

We sent one emergency ambulance to the scene, where the crew were supported by a Cymru High Acuity Response Unit paramedic, an operations manager and a pre-hospital immediate care specialist from the North Wales Emergency Doctors Service. “Advanced critical care support was delivered by the Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service in a Wales Air Ambulance charity helicopter. One person was taken by road to hospital.”

Llangefni is the county town of Anglesey, part of the preserved county of Gwynedd. The island of Anglesey, at 676 square kilometres (261 sq mi), is the largest in Wales and the Irish Sea, and the seventh largest in Britain. Last year, a man died after his plane crashed, landing upside down[5], leaving him trapped inside the cockpit.

The shocking incident took place at the Truro Aerodrome, in Cornwall, with police receiving reports of the crash, on September 3, 2023. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is currently investigating the incident. Emergency services, including teams from Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service and Devon and Cornwall Police[6], raced to the scene.

The light aircraft had crash-landed at the grass strip airfield, situated approximately five miles northwest of Penstraze.

The aircraft was involved in an emergency landing, during which it flipped over and landed in an upturned position on the runway’s edge.

It is understood that the pilot was trapped inside the cockpit.

References

1. ^ plane crash (www.mirror.co.uk)
2. ^ North Wales Police (www.mirror.co.uk)
3. ^ fire (www.mirror.co.uk)
4. ^ North Wales Live (www.dailypost.co.uk)
5. ^ a man died after his plane crashed, landing upside down (www.mirror.co.uk)
6. ^ Devon and Cornwall Police (www.mirror.co.uk)