A plane that overshot the runway and crashed into the hedge next to a road was a flying lesson that went wrong, it has been revealed.

As the Cherokee light aircraft landed at Cotswold Airport in Kemble on August 4, it crossed a taxiway and flew under a disused passenger plane and clipped the landing gear before ending up in the hedge next to the A429.

No one was seriously injured, luckily, but the people in the plane were taken to the hospital as a precaution.

CCTV footage showed the plane making a bumpy landing on the runway before continuing at speed and going out of control.

 

The Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) is looking into the circumstances around the crash.

Investigators have revealed the crash was a lesson involving a flying club, with both a student and instructor on board. It is thought the lesson involved practising "touch-and-go" landings.

In an interview with the BBC, Aviation Analyst Sean Maffett said the escape was "extraordinary".

He said: "I've never seen anything like it before.

"How the pilot, whichever one was flying at the time, managed to avoid the parked aircraft, I don't know.

"They would have run straight into the side of this aircraft at 80-100mph. The whole thing would have been completely destroyed."