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Two people have died after a light aircraft crashed and burst into flames shortly after taking off from Southampton Airport.
The plane came down in Riverside Park, a leisure area under the airport's flight path just before 1300BST.
A spokeswoman for Southampton Police said the plane had taken off from the airport, before crashing close to a sewage works, off
Thomas Lewis Way at 12.54BST.
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[This message has been edited by Evo7 (edited 19 June 2001).]