AN investigation is under way after two men escaped serious injury when their light aircraft was blown into a pylon as they landed at a small country airfield.

The two had set off from Rufforth, near York, on a leisure trip to Sandtoft, in north Lincolnshire, where they made a successful landing.

But their single-engined plane was then apparently caught in a cross-wind, collided with a lighting pylon and then flipped over.

The 76-year-old passenger had to be cut from the aircraft by emergency services and was airlifted by the Lincolnshire air ambulance to Scunthorpe Hospital, with chest injuries.

The 64-year-old pilot was treated for minor injuries.

Neither man was in a serious condition, said a Humberside Police spokesman.

He added: "Immediately the aircraft touched down it appears it was caught by a cross-wind that caused it to collide with a lighting pylon."