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A couple were rescued from a tiny plane after it spun out of control and hurtled onto a country road.
The pilot struggled to keep control of the light plane as it bounced on the Tarmac near a remote airfield on Saturday.
Firefighters freed him and his wife who were both trapped in the wreckage of the twin-engined Piper PA28. They were both said to have serious but not life-threatening injuries.
Take off
The aircraft had taken off from Compton Abbas airfield en route to Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire on Saturday.
But the 43-year-old pilot reported engine problems shortly after take-off and turned back.
A spokesman for Dorset Police said: "The plane was heading for the runway when it clipped some wire fencing on the airfield and spun off onto the road at the end of the airstrip."
Investigation
Air Accident Investigators launched an immediate probe into the cause of the crash.
A spokesman said: "The injured couple have been taken to hospital. They do not have life-threatening injuries, but that is not to say they have not been seriously injured."
The couple, who have not been named, come from Feltham in west London.
They were both taken to Odstock Hospital in Salisbury, one by ambulance and the other by helicopter.
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