Three Britons dead after plane crash near Dubai airport
Three Britons have died after a UK-registered light aircraft crashed in Dubai, authorities said.
The four-seat plane plummeted to the ground around three miles south of Dubai International Airport, killing all four people on board, according to the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA).
Three UK citizens and one South African died, it added in a statement.
1-The GCAA announces, A UK-registered small DA42 plane crashed three miles to the south of Dubai International Airport, killing four people on board. The four-seat plane crashed while on a mission to calibrate terrestrial navigation systems at the airport pic.twitter.com/n3Hm299mii
— GCAA UAE (@gcaauae) May 16, 2019
The crash happened as the DA42 aircraft was "on a mission to calibrate terrestrial navigation systems at the airport", said the GCAA.
Investigations are under way and the airport is operating as normal.
