The inquest into the deaths of a pilot and teen passenger killed in an air crash begins today.

Flight Lieutenant Mike Blee, 62, of St Mary’s Green, Abingdon, and cadet Nicholas Rice, 15, from Reading, died when their aircraft collided with a glider above Drayton in 2009.

The glider pilot survived the crash. The inquest at Oxford Coroner’s Court is scheduled to start at 10am and may last six days.