LONDON, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- A light plane crashed near the Oxford Airport of Britain on Friday, killing two people, local police announced.

    Thames Valley Police said the two-seater aircraft came down in a field in Bladon at around 2 pm, bursting into flames. The type of the plane is not yet known.

    "It looked like he was trying to pull the aircraft up but unfortunately crashed," an eyewitness recalled. "Within five seconds it burst into flames which were 30 feet high."

    The Air Accident Investigation Branch, based in Farnborough, Hampshire, said that a team was on its way to the scene to investigate the crash.