I just got back from Barton.
I was finishing off an RT written test, when the aircraft crashed. An instructor came in and told us one of the local aircraft, a Tomahawk, had gone down in smoke near the runway. One of the 09 runways was in use.
We came out of the office, and you could see smoke coming up from the residential area east of the field. The smell was awful (wind blowing it towards us).
Definitely not a sight I'll be forgetting in a hurry...
The aircraft had suffered an engine failure after take off. Apparently, it was only a few hundred feet AGL when it attempted a left turn, probably stalling as a result.
It was chaos with the roads in the area, everything was cordoned off. As I use public transport, it was a nightmare getting home.