A small ultra-light plane crashed near the Czech village of Krasno, west of the country, claiming the lives of its two-man crew, local emergency service spokesman Lukas Hutta said on Tuesday.
Two men, aged 52 and 54, perished in the cockpit, the Czech news agency CTK quoted Hutta as saying.
The plane collapsed a few tens of meters from the runway into deep grass. The fall and fire entirely destroyed it, he added.
The plane flew over the airport and suddenly crashed to the ground and started burning, eyewitnesses said.
"The witnesses called in the police. The patrol tried to extinguish the fire, but the plane burnt down. The fire was only put up by firemen," local police spokeswoman Andrea Kavova said.
As the accident occurred near the local airport, it cannot be ruled out that the pilot was trying to land due to some technical problems, she said.
The police are on the scene and the accident will be investigated by aviation inspection, Hutta said.
Source:Xinhua
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