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Pilot and passenger injured as plane crashes beside house

* DRAMATIC SCENE: A pilot and his passenger are being treated in hospital after their light plane crashed on Christmas Day. The aircraft came down in a field beside a house and near an airstrip at Mullahead Road in Tandragee, Co Armagh, at about 4pm. One man was treated in Craigavon Area Hospital. His condition was described as stable yesterday. ASouthern Health and Social Care Trust spokesman said the second injured man was transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast last night PICTURE: Alan Lewis/Photopress