British and French emergency teams have responded to reports that a light aircraft has crashed into the English Channel.
The American-registered plane carrying one person on board came down about 15 miles off Dungeness in Kent at around 2.30pm.
A cross-Channel search and rescue operation has been launched involving both English and French teams, including a French helicopter and the Dungeness RNLI lifeboat.
The alarm was raised after the single-engine light aircraft, which was heading from London to Le Touquet, was overdue, a spokesman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said.
The incident happened four miles inside UK waters and is being co-ordinated by the British with help from the French authorities.
An MCA spokesman said a helicopter from RAF Wattisham in Suffolk was due to replace a French helicopter that had been searching for a number of hours.
Lifeboats from Dungeness and Calais are also involved in the operation.
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