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Pilot rescued after Channel ditch

Updated on 28 June 2009

Source PA News

A pilot was rescued in his lifejacket after a light aircraft ditched in the English Channel, coastguards have said.

The plane, which did not have any passengers, came down after suffering reported engine failure off the south Kent coast.

A Dover Coastguard spokesman said: "At 3pm this afternoon we received a call from Lydd Airport air traffic control reporting a light aircraft with engine failure eight miles south east of Lydd."

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