TWO people escaped serious injury when a microlight crashed on landing at Compton Abbas Airfield.

Police, firefighters and ambulance personnel were called at 11am on Sunday.

A spokesman for Dorset police said there were two people on board - the pilot was uninjured and the passenger was taken to hospital by air ambulance with non life-threatening injuries.

The Air Accident Investigation Branch had been notified, added the spokesman.

Earlier this month a man died when a Tiger Moth bi-plane crashed at Witchampton after taking off from Compton Abbas.

The pilot of the Tiger Moth was seriously injured.