WW2 Spitfire makes emergency touchdown in Kent box

A World War Two Spitfire has been pressured to make an emergency touchdown in Kent after dropping energy.

Spitfire MJ627 got here down in a box on Lower Wall Road, West Hythe, on Saturday night, stated its proprietor Fly a Spitfire.

Kent Fire & Rescue Service stated one of the most two folks within the aircraft, which noticed motion over the Netherlands in 1944, was once handled via paramedics.

The Air Accident Investigation Branch has introduced an investigation into what led to the lack of energy.

Fly a Spitfire stated: “We have spoken to the pilot who has advised that a precautionary landing was made at a non-airfield site.”

The corporate stated the pilot and passenger “are uninjured”, including that it had no additional knowledge “at this stage”.

The hearth carrier stated two hearth engines attended the scene at 19:25 BST and made the plane protected.

Spitfire MJ627 first entered carrier on 25 September 1944 and, simply two days later, destroyed Messerschmitt Me 109 over Arnhem.

It was once prior to now taken with an emergency touchdown in 1998, when its pilot made a “wheels up landing” at Coventry Airport.

Last yr, the cockpit cover indifferent from the aircraft all through take-off from Biggin Hill Airport.

It was once in a position to land safely and neither of the 2 occupants in that incident had been harmed.