Emergency services are at the scene of a light aircraft which has crashed into a field in Fife. The incident happened just before 11:40 in an area near Kinglassie. Special rescue units have been deployed by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and police Scotland are also at the scene.

The 50-year-old pilot of a light aircraft has died after his plane crashed near an airport in Fife. Police Scotland confirmed on Monday afternoon that the male pilot had been pronounced dead at the scene. Special units were deployed to the site of the wreckage, near Fife airport in Kinglassie, at about 11.40am.

Crews, including a HM Coastguard helicopter raced to the incident at Glenrothes Airport in Fife after receiving the alarm at 11.38am. Two fire engines and a Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) rescue unit have been drafted to the scene.

The pilot of a light aircraft has died after crashing into a field near Fife Airport. The 50-year-old man died at the scene, near Kinglassie, just before 11:40. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said it was investigating the crash near the airport - a small airfield used by local flying clubs.

Emergency services have been called to a crash near Fife Airport in Kinglassie, Fife, after a light aircraft plunged to the ground at about 11.40am on Monday, December 23

A plane crashed just moments after take off from a Scottish airport this morning. The incident occurred at Fife Airport shortly before 12pm today. The plane, which had recently taken off, plummeted from the sky before crashing into a meadow.