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A plane reported to be a World War II-era Spitfire crashes in a field in England

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British police say a small plane has crashed into a field in eastern England with U.K. media reporting that it was a World War II-era Spitfire fighter. Lincolnshire Police said emergency services were responding to reports that an aircraft had crashed on Saturday in a field at Coningsby about 150 miles or 230 kilometers north of London.

LONDON — A small plane crashed into a field in eastern England on Saturday, police said. British media reported that the downed aircraft was a World War II-era Spitfire fighter.

Lincolnshire Police said emergency services were responding to reports that an aircraft had crashed in a field in Coningsby, about 150 miles north of London. The force said “it is believed to be a single occupant aircraft and nobody else is thought to have been involved.”The Ministry of Defense didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

RAF Coningsby, an air force base near the town, is home to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, a collection of wartime fighter and bomber aircraft that take part in air shows and memorial displays. Several of the planes were due to perform a flying display Saturday at the nearby Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Center.

The crash occurred days before wartime aircraft will take to the skies to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy.

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