Two men have been confirmed dead after a plane crash It happened near Rochdale, on Tuesday (February 3). Officers from GMP, ambulances and firefighters were mobilised to an area of moorland near Blackstone Edge and Hollingworth Lake, with specialist emergency services crews also said to be in attendance. It followed reports of a light aircraft crash in the area on Tuesday morning. The private plane, now understood to have been a small Cirrus SR20, had set off from Birmingham Airport at around 10

This was the huge 'plane crash' exercise held at Manchester Airport that closed one of its runways. The airport tested their full-scale emergency response to the scenario in a training exercise on Tuesday. They used a real plane - a TUI Boeing 737 - and dozens of volunteers took part to help the airport prepare for an incident 'we all hope would never happen,' said Manchester Airport Operations Director, Rad Taylor. Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and North

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