A full-scale emergency rescue operation has been launched in the English Channel after plane travelling from the UK to France with two people on board crashed.
The Piper PA-28 had departed from Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon, shortly before 8am on Saturday morning (April 2) but went off radar just over an hour later.
The plane been in a group of aircraft which was heading to the French resort of Le Touquet in northern France.
