A pilot was unlikely to have received an updated weather forecast which might have prevented her from crashing her light aircraft in a snow storm.

Lynne Cook, 53, from Bicester, was returning from Shobdon airfield in Herefordshire, to Enstone airfield, near Chipping Norton, on November 28 last year, when she got caught in the storm.

A report by the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) of the Department for Transport said the latest weather forecast before Ms Cook took off would have alerted her to the severe conditions, but it was only released about 15 minutes before the flight.

The plane, pictured, crashed at Corndean Wood, near Winchcombe, with the left wing torn from the aircraft before it fell through the trees. Ms Cook, secretary of RAF Brize Norton Flying Club, alerted the emergency services with her mobile phone.

She was unable to walk due to a leg injury, and police officers found her 90 minutes later by using her mobile phone signal.

She was treated for hypothermia and a hip injury before being discharged from hospital.

Her plane narrowly avoided electricity pylons.

Last month, several police officers and two police staff from Gloucestershire received awards for their work in rescuing Ms Cook.

Meanwhile, an aircraft crashed at Oxford Airport, in Kidlington, because damage suffered in an accident two years before had gone unnoticed, an AAIB investigation has revealed.

Landing gear in a two-seater Piper plane snapped during take-off in April 2005. The two crew were not injured.

* A Cessna aeroplane crash at Lewknor in October 2005 was caused by a bump in the grass airstrip and landing gear collapse, AAIB investigators concluded.