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Daily Mirror
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Benjamin Goddard

Ex-Olympic champion David Rudisha survives plane crash three years on from bus collision

Former Olympic champion David Rudisha has survived an horrific plane crash just three years after his car collided head-on with a bus.

Rudisha holds the 800-metre world record of one minute and 40.91 seconds and won Olympic gold medals at both London 2012 and Rio 2016. The 33-year-old, who last competed in 2017, was onboard a light aircraft flying out from Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary in his native Kenya when the dramatic crash happened.

Within eight minutes of the plane taking off its engine failed, resulting in the pilot taking evasive action before one of the wings hit a tree and the plane landed upside down.

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