A man who was badly injured in a plane crash is raising money for the Oxford hospital that rebuilt his shattered limbs.
Charlie Jolly was learning to fly when his plane came down in bad weather at Turweston airfield, near Brackley, pictured.
The crash happened five years ago -- on Mr Jolly's 23rd birthday. His instructor, Tom Dunn of Oxford, was killed.
Now, almost back to full fitness, Mr Jolly is in training for a sponsored run to raise cash for the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre's limb reconstruction unit which saved his badly-broken right leg. For a while, doctors feared the leg might have to be amputated.
Mr Jolly also broke 12 ribs, punctured both lungs, fractured his arm, and broke his jaw. He was in hospital for three months and in a wheelchair for seven months.
The run, on February 4, the anniversary of the crash, will be from Turweston to Oxford airport -- the plane's planned destination in 1999.
Mr Jolly said: "I feel this will mark the end of a long recovery. I will consider myself back to fitness if I can run 20 miles. I have been training since November and feel well enough to take on the challenge, but it will be difficult."
His mother Ruth, of Woodstock Road, Oxford, said: "The weather was bad on the day of the crash, but Charlie was keen to fly because it was his birthday. The instructor said he would show Charlie what would happen if an engine failed, but the plane crashed."
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