John Booth, team principal of the Marussia F1 Team, said: "Maria emerged from theatre at Addenbrooke's Hospital this morning after a lengthy operation to address the serious head and facial injuries she received in the accident at Duxford Airfield yesterday.
A statement from the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing at Bagram Airfield described it as "an accident," without offering details.
De Villota, 33, lost her right eye and fractured her skull in a horrific accident at a straight-line test at Duxford airfield in England in July 2012.
Whoever gets there first is the one to hook up their 4x4 to the small water tank on wheels, kept in a tiny corrugated iron shed at the side of the airfield, to be used as firefighting equipment in case of an accident.
In December 1945, shortly after the end of the Pacific War, the commanding officer of No. 93 Squadron, Squadron Leader D.K.M. Gulliver, crashed his Beaufighter on takeoff at Labuan, colliding with two P-51 Mustangs of No. 77 Squadron parked at the airfield; Gulliver and five people on the ground died in the accident, including the then-Officer Commanding No. 86 Wing, Group Captain L.C.M. Holswich.
Shortly after Le Mans Mercedes conducted its own examination of the accidents by running the remaining CLR on an airfield to verify wind tunnel data.
Bradley, which opened during World War II as a military airfield, is named for Lt. Eugene Morris Bradley, who died in a training accident there on Aug. 21, 1941.
The pilots were not familiar with operating from such under-developed airfields, and the squadrons at Strauss and Livingstone suffered a high accident rate during February and March 1943.
The Ministry of Defence said the accident happened during "a routine flight" and the crash site, close to Kandahar airfield, had been cordoned off.
The MoD said the accident happened during "a routine flight" and that the crash site, close to Kandahar airfield, had been cordoned off.
