THE six-year-old boy who survived a plane crash which killed his parents is conscious and making a recovery, according to his school.

George Tonkinson is being treated at Southampton General Hospital for the injuries he suffered when the light aircraft he was travelling in came down in woodland near Popham Airfield on Saturday.

Lewis Tonkinson, 50, and Sally Tonkinson, 44, from Alcester in Warwickshire, were travelling from the Isle of Wight along with their son and were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.

Jim Turner, head teacher at the independent King’s Hawford Junior School in Worcester, where George is a Year 2 pupil, said that he is a “lovely boy” who will “need the support of those close to him” following the tragic accident which has left him an orphan. A special assembly is now being planned with prayers being said for George and his family.

Neighbours described the couple’s deaths as an “unbelievable tragedy”.