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LANCING NEWS (Thursday 6th October, 2005)

Plane crash

A COUPLE died on Sunday after the plane which they were flying from Shoreham Airport to Devon crashed in the New Forest, Hampshire.

Anthony Baker, 53, and Elaine Parry, 43, both from Brighton, died when the light aircraft crashed at South Baddesley, near Lymington.

The single-engine, fixed-wing Baker Bambi plane took off from Shoreham at 11.36am on Sunday, and was heading to the Dunkers Well airfield in Honiton, Devon. The wreckage of the plane was discovered near Snooks Farm, in South Baddesley, at 2pm.

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BBC News (Tuesday 4th October, 2005)

Police name plane crash victims

A man and a woman killed when a single-engine fixed-wing light aircraft crashed in Hampshire have been identified by police.

Anthony Baker, 53, and Elaine Parry, 43, from Brighton, were found dead next to the Baker Banbi, which took off from Shoreham Airfield on Sunday morning.

A farmer found the plane - heading for Dunkeswell Airfield in Devon - in a field at Snooks Farm, South Baddesley.

Air accident investigators are trying to establish the cause of the crash.

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BBC News (Sunday 2nd October, 2005)

Two dead in light aircraft crash

Two people have been killed in a light aircraft crash in Hampshire.

It is not known what time the accident happened - a local farmer found the wreckage and called police shortly after 1400 BST on Sunday.

The plane came down in a field at Snooks Farm, Snooks Lane, South Baddesley, near Lymington.

Two people, the pilot and
passenger, died in the crash

The pilot and passenger, a man and woman in their late 40s or early 50s, were found dead. Air accident investigators are to visit the scene.

Police said the wreckage of the single-engine plane would remain in place overnight and the area had been cordoned off.