Social media videos showed the aircraft appear to lose control in the moments before the crash.
The pilot of a light aircraft which crashed at a war museum was killed in the collision, authorities have confirmed.at Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire on Tuesday afternoon.
The aircraft was a privately-owned General Aviation Cirrus SR22, based at Duxford, the spokesman added. Data from tracking site FlightRadar24 shows the aircraft's flight had started 20 minutes earlier at 1.20pm.It had circled the airfield three times, performing "touch-and-goes" - a standard procedure in which an aircraft lands on the runway and then proceeds to take off again without stopping.Revd Lydia Smith, rector of Duxford, said: "It was with great sadness that we heard of the crash at Duxford airfield yesterday in which the plane's pilot died.
A spokesperson said: "A multi-disciplinary team of AAIB inspectors has deployed to Duxford, Cambridgeshire, to begin investigating an accident involving a light aircraft."
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