A ten-year-old Mid Sussex girl and her father are believed to be among those killed in a plane crash at the weekend.

Thames Valley Police said it hoped the identities of the four people who died could be confirmed later today.

Forensic experts were recovering wreckage from the crash site near the horse-racing village of Lambourn, Berkshire.

The victims included a ten-year-old girl and her father, believed to be from the Mid Sussex area.

Police said the Piper Arrow plane crashed at 3pm within minutes of taking off on a pleasure flight from Thruxton airfield, Hampshire.

The bodies of the young girl, her father and two men were recovered from the scene.

Civil Aviation Authority investigators arrived this morning to try to find out why the plane crashed.

Ten-year-old Ashley Wilkie was playing near Sheepdrove Organic Farm, near Lambourn, when he saw the plane coming towards him.

He said: "I just looked up and there was a plane tilting and wobbling. I looked up again and it was going down nose first and spinning.

"It only had half of its wing. The plane just fell apart and the pieces were falling everywhere."

The aircraft came down less than a quarter of a mile from farmworkers' cottages.