A donor liver being carried by a private Cessna jet which crashed on landing in fog at Birmingham airport on Friday has been successfully transplanted.

Two men on board were injured, one of them critically, but the donor organ was pulled from the wreckage of the blazing plane and taken to the nearby Queen Elizabeth hospital.

A hospital spokeswoman said: "The transplant team would like to thank the pilot and his colleague for their bravery. Our thoughts are with the individuals and their families. The team would also like to thank the quick thinking of the fire and rescue teams at the scene who saved the organ."

It was the sixth liver transplant at the hospital in five days.

PA