A British wildlife expert and a display pilot have been killed in a plane crash in the desert in Namibia, southern Africa.

Professor Alan Wilson, 62, and former airline pilot Neil Oakman, 63, nose-dived into the Namib Desert in a light aircraft shortly after take-off and died instantly.

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Professor Alan Wilson, 62, died on Wednesday, March 4, when a research flight he was travelling on crashed shortly after take-off in the ...