A 73-year-old Dunfermline man is in hospital in a “stable” condition after the small plane he was a passenger in crashed into the garden of a residential property in Hampshire.
The accident happened on Thursday when the Piper PA-22/150 Caribbean plane got into trouble over the village of Netley Marsh, near Totton.
It clipped the roof of a bungalow in Woodlands Road, hit a greenhouse and landed in the garden.
It is not yet clear what prompted the crash but the Air Accidents Investigation Branch has carried out an initial assessment of the scene.
Both men on the aircraft were taken to Southampton General Hospital.
The man from Dunfermline has not been named.
A police spokesman said the aircraft was flying from the Isle of Wight to a destination in Hampshire at the time of the crash.
“Fortunately, the occupants of the house were not injured in any way, but the pilot and passenger have injuries and are being treated at hospital,” he said.
A number of Woodlands Road residents were evacuated as a precaution and the road was closed for a short time.
Hampshire Police said the 74-year-old pilot, from north Hampshire, remained in a critical but stable condition.
The passenger was making “good progress” and was in a stable condition.
A police spokesman said the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) team was at the scene and “attempts are being made to remove the aircraft from the crash scene in the remaining daylight hours before transporting it to the AAIB facility in Farnborough.”