British MEP Farage injured in plane crash

Media reports suggested the plane had come down after the banner of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) it was trailing became entangled in its engine.
Farage, a Member of the European Parliament for UKIP, had been planning to fly across central England towing the giant banner.
Police said his plane had crashed shortly after 8 a.m. local time at an airfield in Northamptonshire, north of London.
A UKIP spokesman said Farage, who is standing against the speaker of the House of Commons, the lower chamber of parliament, in his constituency in central England, had not been seriously hurt but might have some broken bones.
The pilot was thought to have more serious although not life-threatening injuries.
"Nigel's got a thick skin," the spokesman said.
"He was flying over the area with the UKIP banner at the back of it," he said, adding he could not confirm the cause of the accident. "He was going to be doing a couple of hours with the banner." UKIP, which wants Britain to pull out of the EU, stunned the political establishment last year by beating the ruling Labour Party into third place in European parliamentary elections, taking more than 16 percent of the vote.
Farage himself then shocked European colleagues in February when he described Belgian Herman Van Rompuy, the new President of the European Council, as "a damp rag" resembling a low-grade bank clerk.
"If the entire political class are united in their disgust of me, I must be getting something right," the 45-year-old former commodities broker told Reuters in March.