Five Czechs die in airplane crash in Kiev

Five Czechs died when the plane they were flying in crashed near the airport in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Sunday. The aircraft belonged to a Czech airline company called Fun Air from Karlovy Vary. The dead included the aircraft’s two pilots, a married couple and another woman. One of the victims was the company’s owner Miroslav Jager. The plane had been flying from Hradec Kralove to Kiev when it came down by a motorway near the airport; it then went on fire. The Ukrainian authorities have suggested pilot error may have been responsible for the accident.