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A man said it was "absolutely unbelievable" that he and his family walked away from a plane crash.

The light aircraft came down on the A40 near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, on Sunday morning.

Jack Moore, who was on board, thanked the emergency services and passing motorists, who helped pull them from the burning wreckage.

All three people on board were treated for minor injuries and taken to hospital as a precaution.

The plane was being piloted by Stuart Moore, with his nephew, Jack Moore, and niece Billie Manley on board.

"Absolutely unbelievable that me and my family have walked away from this," Mr Moore wrote on Facebook.

"Just want to say thank you to the passers by that helped us at the scene and also the emergency services."

He added: "We are very lucky, lucky people."

The six year-old Cirrus SR22 light aircraft, registered in Guernsey but owned by an Irish company, flew regularly between County Kerry and the UK.

On Sunday, Stuart Moore had flown from London and landed in Abergavenny to pick up his niece and nephew.

"I saw the crash happen," said Frank Cavaciuti, who owns the private airstrip where the plane had taken off from.

"But by the time I got there the fire was so intense I could have done nothing. The aircraft exploded as I approached it.

"I didn't realise at first that they had already been rescued."

He praised the bravery of former army bomb disposal officer Joel Snarr, who helped pull the pilot and two passengers from the burning wreckage.

"He's the real hero in all of this. There's no doubt about it, he saved those people 's lives," he said.

"A million other people wouldn't have done what he did.

"There was such a narrow window of time to get them out. It's just brilliant that he was there."

Mr Snarr described how he parked near the central reservation and ran to help.

"I was driving down the A40. It's such an unusual sight, you're not able to piece it together immediately," he told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales.

"I said 'what's that?', and my wife said, 'It's a plane'."

Mr Snarr described running 30 metres to it, and finding another motorist, Daniel Nicholson, had arrived and was pulling people from the burning plane.

He added: "Daniel had smashed the back windows and I gave a hand with that.

"I grabbed the pilot with both hands and pulled him out of the window."

Mr Snarr said it would have been more difficult if the three passengers had been unconscious, but added: "The fact they were conscious helped us.

"They were all shocked, the lady had a blow to the head, they were full of adrenalin."

Split second decision

The pair helped get all three to safety as emergency services arrived.

Describing the split second decision to help, he said: "If you had questioned it, you would have talked yourself into not going down.

"I'm quite tired this morning, it wasn't the best night's sleep. Still, better than if we had not reacted and pulled them out."

In total 19 firefighters attended the site and used foam to extinguish the aircraft.

Gwent Police said: "The aircraft was reported to have made an unscheduled landing in the area, colliding with overhead wiring."

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is aware and is making inquiries.