1 dies as plane crashes onto road

LONDON, England -- One person has been killed after an aircraft slid on to a motorway after its brakes failed on landing, emergency services have said.

The privately-owned L39 jet failed to stop on the runway at Duxford, in Cambridgeshire, on Sunday and careered on to the normally busy M11 motorway, local police said.

The jet managed to avoid hitting any cars before coming to a stop in the central reservation, straddling both carriageways.

The motorway was closed in both directions, police said.

A spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire ambulance service said: "We sent two ambulances and two medics, and Essex assisted with air ambulance. One patient was deceased at the scene."

As far as she was aware, there were no other passengers in the plane.

A spokeswoman for Duxford Airfield said no members of the public had been

involved in the incident.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch was looking into the cause of the accident, she added.

It is the second freak aerial accident in two days in southern England.

Two people were killed when a skydiver crashed through the wing of a glider at Hinton Airfield, near Brackley, Northants, on Saturday.