An air accident investigation has been launched after a plane crashed in Fife.
Emergency services raced to the incident at Fife Airport in Dunfermline on Monday. Police, ambulance crews and a HM Coastguard helicopter were scrambled to the scene at 11.30am.
Tragically, the 50-year-old male pilot died at the scene. Nobody else was injured.
The Air Accident Investigations Branch has confirmed a probe into the fatal crash is now underway. Meanwhile, horrified eyewitnesses told how they saw the aircraft “nosedive” into the side of a hill.
Speaking to STV News, resident Dave Nicolson said: “I had a look and the next thing I heard it stalling and it just nosedived into the ground. I heard the bang from down the bottom of the village and drove up here to find out what had happened. There was an old boy at that time phoning the emergency services.”
A spokesperson for Police Scotland said: “We received a report of a light aircraft having crashed near Fife Airport, Kinglassie, around 11.40am on Monday, December 23, 2024. Officers attended and a 50-year-old man, the pilot, was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin are aware.
“No-one else was injured. Emergency services remain at the scene and inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the crash are continuing.”
A spokesperson for the AAIB said: “The AAIB has been notified of this accident and is deploying a team of inspectors to commence an investigation.”
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