A Government report into a plane crash that killed a student pilot says the cause of the accident was due to the “aircraft stalling”.

The pilot, said to be in his 50s, died shortly after taking off from Plaistow Farm Airfield in Hertfordshire on December 9, 2017 for a planned flying lesson.

Police were called by the ambulance service to reports of the crash and Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue attended the scene.

A subsequent investigation was launched by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch to determine the cause of the crash.

In the report published by the government body on November 8 it says the student pilot had “completed a successful dual circuit check” with his instructor prior to a solo flight.

Shortly after takeoff at around 12.30pm, the aircraft, a Skyranger Nynja G-CGWL, climbed steeply to between one and 300 hundred feet before the left wing “dropped”.

The single engine plane then fell into a steep nosedive before hitting the ground and the pilot was killed.

The Government report says none of the witnesses remember any unusual engine noises or hearing the engine stop.

It also says: “It is considered the accident was caused by the aircraft stalling, although a cause for this could not be determined.”

The student pilot was the only passenger on board at the time of the accident, according to the report.