Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A misfiring Spitfire was forced to make an emergency crash-landing in a field just days before VE Day. (SWNS) (Tracey Allison / ...

A rare Second World War-era Spitfire was forced to crash-land in a field in West Hythe on Saturday evening, just hours before VE Day commemorations were set to begin across the UK. The vintage ...

A Spitfire pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in Kent after a decades-old fuel system part caused the engine to shut down. The World War Two plane came down in a field on Lower Wall Road, ...

A horrified eyewitness has recalled the terrifying moment a Spitfire crashed into a farmer's field just hours before VE Day celebrations. A historic Spitfire was seen circling "for a couple of minutes ...

Vintage fighter comes within moments of tipping over completely before flopping back down in incident at Pitsford Airfield Gareth Corfield is the Telegraph's Transport Correspondent. He covers road, ...

The incident occurred on May 3, 2025, and involved the Spitfire IXT with the registration G-BMSB. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), which published a report on the incident on October 9, ...

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A Spitfire was forced to make an emergency crash-landing in a field just days before VE Day. The historic aircraft - which had two people onboard - veered out of the sky before crashing down among ...