THIS scene of domestic bliss is just what the doctor ordered for plane crash survivor Mike Sullivan.

The Swindon Town marketing manager is the first passenger to be released from hospital following Saturday's dramatic crash.

He was pulled out of the mangled wreckage with a badly broken arm.

The father-of-two says he has been overwhelmed with the kindness shown to him by Swindon Town fans and the well-wishers who have visited him at his home in Langley in Buckinghamshire.

Mr Sullivan's wife Anita says he was cheered by Town's last gasp victory against Barnet on Tuesday night.

"He's in good spirits. He was really pleased and surprised at the amount of people there,' she said.

"The club said there were lots of people saying get well soon and singing songs about them," she said.

"There have been so many people popping in that I've hardly seen him. But it's great to have him back. We're just amazed that he's still here."

Two youths who were coached by Mr Sullivan when they were under-nines - some 12 years ago - even dropped by to check on him.

"I don't think he can believe the amount of people that have come to see him - they just keep filing in," said Mrs Sullivan.

"I think talking it through with all of those people is helping him as well. He's got a story to tell and he doesn't mind telling it."

It has emerged that Mr Sullivan was warning of the dangers of light aircraft before taking the flight.

He said: "A friend told me light aircraft were dangerous but I made a joke of it saying well if it's going to crash let it be on the way back then at least we will have seen the match.'"

As reported in the Advertiser, when Mrs Sullivan first heard the news she assumed the worst.

But once she had heard her husband was alive she was unable to get in touch with their son Lee, 21, who is working for Disney in Florida.

She said: "He found out on the internet and was really cross with me."

Josie Devlin, the wife of club chief executive Mark, was at the theatre in High Wycombe watching her daughter Hayley in a play and so had her phone switched off.

Thames Valley Police sent officers to the theatre to tell Mrs Devlin her husband and son were in the plane.

When Mrs Sullivan arrived at hospital she didn't recognise young Stan Devlin.

"He had such a huge bruise to his head, it had swollen to almost double its normal size," she said.

Mr Devlin, his son, director Bill Power and two other passengers remain in hospital along with the pilot.

The plane crashed into woods in Buckinghamshire between the 13th hole of Denham Golf Club and a railway track on Saturday.

Astonishingly, it was a matter of yards from the home of Swindon Town manager Dennis Wise.

Pilot is fighting for his life in hospital

PILOT Frank Kratky was last night fighting for his life after a chest infection complicated his existing injuries.

Mr Kratky, 59, suffered severe spinal and facial injuries in Saturday's crash.

He is currently under sedation in Slough's Wexham Park Hospital's intensive care unit and his wife Jarka says it his condition is touch and go.

She said: "He is still very, very poorly. He's in intensive care and is sedated and being kept ventilated.

"They want to transfer him when he has stabilised, but they cannot do it until his condition improves.

"He's got a chest infection and they're trying to stabilise it, but it's touch and go. We're all very concerned and upset, but the main thing is the other passengers are okay.

"It would have been a tragedy if he woke up to be told that somebody didn't make it."

Father-of-four Mr Kratky has more than 40 years of flying experience.

Mrs Kratky said: "The children have been fantastic and have really helped me. Frank hasn't been conscious at all, they sedated him straight away because they didn't want him to move."

Mr Kratky was 16 when he first flew a plane in his native Czechoslovakia.

Mrs Kratky said: "I'm so glad all the other people are doing well and they're all alive.

"We don't know what happened, but we will find out. But what I know is that my husband had 40 years' experience and was a very, very good pilot.

"When I heard I was quite sure something had gone seriously wrong. We have flown lots with Frank - to France, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic.

"He was serious about his flying and he wouldn't do anything silly.

"He was extremely conscientious."

Mr Kratky's 60th birthday is next week.

"I hope he will make it," Mrs Kratky said.

A Wexham Park Hospital spokeswoman said Mr Kratky's condition was serious but stable.