At approximately 3pm today the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) helicopter was dispatched to Kemble Airfield to reports of a crash landing.

The GWAAC aircraft landed at Kemble Airfield at 3.15pm, at approximately the same time as Wiltshire Air Ambulance.

A light aircraft did appear to have crash-landed and had suffered subsequent fire damage.

The male pilot, aged 48, was still conscious at the time of the helicopter’s arrival.

GWAAC medical staff anaesthetised the patient ahead of transport to Frenchay Hospital in the Wiltshire Air Ambulance aircraft.