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Peter Allen

City of London executive in Channel plane crash ‘was on day trip to France’

Crew members lift a dinghi onto the Abeille Languedoc (File image shows the Abeille Languedoc)

(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

A British plane owned by a City of London executive that crashed into the English Channel with two people onboard was on a day trip to France organised by the South Warwickshire Flying School, it emerged on Sunday.

The 46-year-old Piper PA-28R-200 Cherokee Arrow II came down on Saturday morning just over an hour after leaving Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon.

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