AN inquest has opened into the death of a pilot who died after a crash at Enstone Airfield last month.

Peter Hughes, 71, has been flying a replica Spitfire at the airfield in West Oxfordshire on July 28 when it crashed into a field.

A HEMS doctor verified the pilot’s death at 2.43pm that afternoon after police and emergency services closed the airfield.

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An inquest opening was heard at Oxford Coroner’s Court on Monday (August 13) into Mr Hughes’s death.

It was heard that his medical cause of death has been provided as ‘burns and inhalation of products of combustion’.

A date for a full inquest to place has not yet been scheduled. The details of the crash have not yet been revealed.