Mr Farage was taken to hospital after the crash on election day 2010 A pilot found guilty of threatening to kill UKIP leader Nigel Farage following a plane crash has been given a community order.
A jury found Justin Adams guilty of making five threats relating to Mr Farage and crash investigator Martin James after the accident in May 2010.
The court heard the recording of a phone call where Adams claimed to have a 9mm pistol.
Adams, 46, of Oxfordshire, was given a two-year supervised community order.
The crash in Northamptonshire on 6 May last year, the day of the 2010 General Election, left both Adams and Mr Farage in hospital.
During the trial the jury was played a recording of an exchange between Adams and Sharon Bailey, a police inquiry centre officer at Thames Valley Police.
He said: “I’m going to kill somebody or two”, the court heard.
Within the conversation, Adams was heard to say: “I know where they live, they destroyed my life.”
He later added: “I now have a 9mm pistol, I’ve got the means – I will take them out and then myself.”
Adams told the operator he had lost his livelihood, house, wife and child in the wake of the air crash investigation.
An Air Accidents Investigation Branch report found the plane crashed when a campaign banner it was towing became entangled, causing the plane’s nose to drop.
A subsequent Civil Aviation Authority inquiry, which involved Mr James and investigated whether Adams was qualified to fly with a banner, later cleared the pilot.
Adams told the operator: “You need to understand all charges were dropped against me after six or seven months of investigations. In the intervening period everything else fell apart.”
He added: “He’s taken my life, I’ll take his.”
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