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| The names of five people killed in an aircraft crash in Warwickshire are expected to be released later. | |
| The bodies of two men and two women who were in a Cessna 402 aircraft and one person who was in a solo-piloted small aircraft were recovered on Monday. | The bodies of two men and two women who were in a Cessna 402 aircraft and one person who was in a solo-piloted small aircraft were recovered on Monday. |
| The aircraft collided above Coombe Abbey near Coventry Airport on Sunday. | The aircraft collided above Coombe Abbey near Coventry Airport on Sunday. |
| Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out, and police will release the crash victims' names once formal identification has taken place. | |
| Fingertip search | |
| Rescue teams made up of officers from Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service and the RAF worked for nearly two days to recover the bodies. | |
| The first body, thought to be that of the small aircraft pilot, was found by rescue crews near Coombe Abbey, about two miles from Coventry Airport. | |
| Teams searching Brandon Wood later found the other four bodies. | Teams searching Brandon Wood later found the other four bodies. |
| The crash victims' families have laid flowers at the edge of the wood. | The crash victims' families have laid flowers at the edge of the wood. |
| Investigators are preparing to start a full fingertip search of the crash sites to try to work out how the accident happened. |