A man is in hospital with serious injuries after the light plane he was piloting collided with a horse in South Australia.
It's understood the aircraft crashed into the horse shortly after take-off at Brentwood, on the York Peninsula, at 9.20am today.
Both the pilot, a 63-year-old man, and his passenger, a 56-year-old woman managed to escape the wreckage, however the man was seriously injured.
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He was flown to the Royal Adelaide Hospital where he remains.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) will is investigating the incident.
The horse survived the ordeal.
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