Rescuers said later that two light aircraft were flying in formation from an airfield in the north of England.
One of the pair, a Luscombe Model H, collided with a third aircraft, a Pacific 750, which had taken off from another airfield, possibly nearby Tatenhill.
The above doesn't concur with:-
a Luscombe Silvaire . . . police said, and had taken off from a farm in Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire,
and:-
in the other plane, a Pacific Aerospace 350 XL.
"We were flying from Cark, near Flookburgh, to Cranfield in Bedfordshire.
So a low-wing aircraft thought to be travelling roughly north to south at a reported 1800 ft contacts a high-wing aircraft two miles (almost due) west of its base airfield* from which it is thought to have taken off. Any turn from the take-off runway heading to the wreckage position would involve banking to starboard.^ The low-wing aircraft sustains damage to the port undercarriage.
*no allowance made for drift of the stricken aircraft after the collision.
^reducing visibility above to the north.
Blind spots?
Aerial view:-
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=52.812412&...14&l=0&m=h&v=1
Edited to add:- "G-AKUI (cn 2464) Owned by David Sims of Stoke, Yeatsall Farm, Abbots Bromley, Staffs, UK - England" (following the above disclosure of the reg number)