TWO Melbourne men have been seriously injured after a glider crashed into a paddock and barbed-wire fencing in Benalla this afternoon.
A learner pilot, 61, was airlifted to The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne with pelvic and facial injuries.
His instructor, 74, was taken to Wangaratta Hospital with back injuries.
Witnesses say the craft lost altitude while attempting to land at the Benalla Airport at about 1pm and ploughed into a paddock, before sliding into a fence.
Pilot inexperience is not believed to be a factor in the crash.
The incident comes a day after two men were killed when their gyroplane crashed in Mangalore, about 120 kilometres north of Melbourne.
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