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The crash of an RAF aircraft at the weekend led to a call last night by Labour for an inquiry into a spate of accidents involving British military aircraft. The pilot of the Hawk jet believed to have collided with another aircraft at an airshow in Portugal on Sunday ejected safely from the jet but was still in hospital yesterday with slight injuries. The Ministry of Defence would not confirm reports naming him as Flight Lieutenant Marcus Cook.

An MoD spokesman said only that the pilot was based at RAF Valley, Anglesey, that a board of inquiry would investigate and the findings would be made public. It was thought that there had been a collision but that was for the inquiry to establish. The Hawk was the 10th British military plane to crash so far this year - as many as in the whole of 1995.