UKIP’s Farage released from hospital

Nigel Farage being rescued from the plane wreckage

Mr Farage suffered minor injuries in the plane crash

The former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader said he was “the luckiest man alive” after surviving a light aircraft crash during his election campaign.

Nigel Farage, 46, was discharged from hospital two days after the plane he was in crashed in Northamptonshire.

He said he feared he would burn to death in the wreckage and said he and the pilot had known for five minutes before impact they were going to crash.

Mr Farage was treated in hospital for broken ribs and bruised lungs.

He said he believed the UKIP banner the plane was towing was to blame for the crash at Hinton-in-the-Hedges.

He said: “The banner hooked around the tail of the plane which meant that whenever he came in to land, it would be a nose-dive landing.

Fire fears

“So we spent five minutes knowing we were in for a crash landing and the question was just how big and bad it was going to be.”

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Farage: “stop worrying about me”

From UKIP News

Election day drama: The plane that had been carrying Nigel Farage   when it crashed at Hinton-in-the-Hedges airfield near Brackley,   NorthantsFollowing Nigel Farage’s miraculous escape from this morning’s plane crash Lord Pearson, the UKIP leader said:

“We confirm that Nigel Farage has been moved from Banbury to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. We understand there was no pressing medical need for this transfer. He has been visited by his wife.

“Despite being in considerable pain, we deduce that Nigel is back to his something like his normal form. He told UKIP’s Banbury candidate Dr Sebastian Fairweather who gained access to him in hospital to ‘stop worrying about me, get back out there and get out the vote”.

“We also understand that the injuries to the pilot, Justin Adams may be less serious than previously feared though we have been unable to speak to his family.

“It is clear that both men had a remarkably lucky escape.

Ukip candidate Nigel Farage ‘lucky to be alive’ after cheating death in polling day plane crash

By Mirror.co.uk

Nigel Farage (pic: Getty)

Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage tonight spoke about his “miraculous escape” from a light plane crash after an election stunt went dramatically wrong.

The MEP, who is standing in the General Election for Buckingham, was pulled bloodied and dazed from the crushed cockpit of the plane which was towing a banner bearing the slogan “Vote for your country – Vote Ukip”.

In a statement released by his spokesman Duncan Barkes, Mr Farage said of the crash, which also injured pilot Justin Adams: “We’ve both had a miraculous escape. We are both very lucky to be alive.”

Mr Farage is being treated at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where a hospital spokeswoman said he was likely to remain “for a few days”.

Mr Barkes added: “He is not going anywhere today. There is no way he will be at the count tomorrow.

“He’s got two broken ribs, a small chip to his spine and damage to his sternum.”

Mr Farage’s wife Kirsten was at his bedside earlier today but has since returned to their home in Westerham, Kent, to care for the couple’s two children.