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One man dies in sports plane crash in Hungary

Xinhua, April 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

A 60-year-old man died and a 55-year-old suffered life-threatening injuries when an ultra-light sports plane crashed near the village of Urhida, about 75 km southwest of Budapest on Thursday.

One man was killed instantly, while the other was hospitalized with multiple injuries including a fractured skull, other broken bones, and internal bleeding, a spokesman for National Ambulance Services told local wire service MTI.

Names have not been released. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Endit