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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Newtownards plane crash: Pilot who died ‘steered away from crowds to avoid more deaths’

Rebecca Black/PA

A pilot who died in a light aircraft crash in Northern Ireland had tried to steer away from a crowd of people on the ground, according to a report citing witnesses.

Philip Murdock was attempting to prevent people from getting hurt or killed before the crash on Tuesday evening that took his life and that of a woman, according to the Belfast Telegraph.

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