PILOT Ian Dickinson and his wife were a devoted couple and the final thing he might have done was to save her life, mourners in Alderney suggested yesterday.

A PLANE that ditched 25 miles north-west of Guernsey was serviced and given the all-clear 10 days earlier.

A WOMAN has told French maritime police how she struggled in vain to save her unconscious husband after the private plane they were in crashed into the sea.

A LIGHT aircraft crash-landed on the runway on Saturday.

ALDERNEY plane crash survivors Alan and Pam Radcliffe left the island yesterday morning.

DRAMATIC details emerged yesterday about how four people escaped from a burning plane that crashed in Alderney.

FOUR people escaped – three with minor injuries – after their light aircraft crashed in Alderney and burst into flames.

ANDY PRIAULX has paid tribute to two friends and former racing car drivers who died in a plane crash on Sunday in Kent.

THE nosewheel of a private aircraft collapsed on landing at Alderney airport yesterday.

TWO men who died after a private aircraft en route to Guernsey crashed into the sea six miles north of Cherbourg yesterday might be Channel Islanders. One man survived.