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06/05/2010
UKIP's Farage Walks From Plane Crash
Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party, walked away with minor injuries suffered in a plane crash, shortly after voting started today.
Mr Farage, an outspoken member of the European Parliament, was in a light aircraft which crash-landed at an airfield in Northamptonshire, north of London, as he toured the constituency of Buckingham.
The plane crashed after a slogan banner saying 'Vote For Your Country - Vote UKIP' got caught up in the engine.
"He walked out of the crash bloodied," a party spokesman said. "He has been taken to hospital in Banbury. The pilot is a bit more serious. He was cut out of the craft."
A police spokesman said: "Two people were on board, the pilot and the passenger, both had minor injuries."
Mr Farage, 46, gained notoriety when he called the European Union's new president Herman Van Rompuy a "damp rag" in a rant in the parliamentary chamber in Strasbourg.
He was fined almost €3,000 (about $4000) for the comments he made in March during Mr Van Rompuy's first appearance before the European Parliament.
Mr Farage is trying to win UKIP's first seat in the House of Commons.
The party opposes Britain's membership of the EU and wants stronger controls on immigration.
(LB/BMcC)
Mr Farage, an outspoken member of the European Parliament, was in a light aircraft which crash-landed at an airfield in Northamptonshire, north of London, as he toured the constituency of Buckingham.
The plane crashed after a slogan banner saying 'Vote For Your Country - Vote UKIP' got caught up in the engine.
"He walked out of the crash bloodied," a party spokesman said. "He has been taken to hospital in Banbury. The pilot is a bit more serious. He was cut out of the craft."
A police spokesman said: "Two people were on board, the pilot and the passenger, both had minor injuries."
Mr Farage, 46, gained notoriety when he called the European Union's new president Herman Van Rompuy a "damp rag" in a rant in the parliamentary chamber in Strasbourg.
He was fined almost €3,000 (about $4000) for the comments he made in March during Mr Van Rompuy's first appearance before the European Parliament.
Mr Farage is trying to win UKIP's first seat in the House of Commons.
The party opposes Britain's membership of the EU and wants stronger controls on immigration.
(LB/BMcC)
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