The search for a missing pilot has been called off, after a plane crashed into the sea near Winchelsea Beach yesterday (August 6).
Sussex Police received a report from a member of the public that a light aircraft had been seen to go into the sea about half a mile off Winchelsea Beach, East Sussex, at 5pm yesterday.
Initial reports suggest that the aircraft comes from a local Aero Club and that the man flying it was the sole occupant.
A police spokesman said: "Some wreckage which is...
