{"id":67233,"date":"2025-05-02T02:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/67233\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T02:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:20:12","slug":"police-issue-update-on-salford-plane-crash-as-man-fights-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/67233\/","title":{"rendered":"Police issue update on Salford plane crash as man fights for life"},"content":{"rendered":"

One person is still fighting for their life as another was left seriously injuredWitnesses said a light aircraft ‘snapped in two’ after crashing shortly after take-off at Barton Aerodrome on Tuesday, April 29<\/p>\n

An investigation has been launched following a plane crash at Barton Aerodrome earlier this week<\/a>. Greater Manchester Police confirmed that whilst still in it’s early stages, it may involve the aviation authorities.<\/p>\n

Two people were left seriously injured, as one remains fighting for their life in hospital.<\/p>\n

Police, paramedics and firefighters rushed to the airport in Eccles<\/a>, Salford<\/a> at about 5.30pm on Tuesday evening, April 29. Two men were rushed to Salford Royal Hospital.<\/p>\n

A witness said: \u201cThe plane taxied down the runway and upon reaching the end of the runway there was a loud pop sound and the engine cut-off after the plane had already taken off and was about two or three metres in the air.<\/p>\n

(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt continued to coast at a really low altitude before the wing struck the ground on one side. It then rolled over completely upside down and the plane snapped into two pieces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey then sounded an alarm and over the course of the next five to 10 minutes around 20 or so emergency vehicles arrived including police fire and ambulance.”<\/p>\n

The men’s injuries were initially described as \u2018non-life-threatening\u2019, but Greater Manchester Police<\/a> have since said one is now fighting for life.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo men have been taken to hospital, one with life-threatening injuries and another with potentially life-changing injuries,\u201d said the force in a statement just before 7pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cA scene is in place whilst emergency service workers conduct their enquiries and people are asked to avoid the area.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Image: Kenny Brown | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

Barton<\/a> Aerodrome has said that the government\u2019s Air Accidents Investigation Branch has been informed. A spokesperson for the airport said on Tuesday: \u201cToday at 5.07pm an aircraft accident occurred within the Barton Aerodrome boundary, the AAIB have been informed and are carrying out an investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur onsite rescue and firefighting service attended the incident and have worked alongside external emergency services.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wreckage of the aircraft could be seen as the light faded on the aerodrome field.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said on Tuesday: “At around 5.30pm today three fire engines from across Greater Manchester and the technical response unit attended an aircraft crash at Barton Aerodrome, Eccles.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirefighters arrived quickly and assisted Greater Manchester Police, North West Ambulance Service and the airport fire service in making the area safe and helping two casualties out of the aircraft.<\/p>\n

“Both casualties were transferred into the care of North West Ambulance Service and transferred to Salford Royal Hospital. Crews were in attendance for roughly one hour.”<\/p>\n

The aerodrome added that ‘further details will be provided when available’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is still fighting for their life as another was left seriously injuredWitnesses said a light aircraft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,1290,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-67233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-salford","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114435852231294584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}