Light aircraft crashes into house in Connecticut, USA

Shocking footage of a light aircraft plunging out of the sky into a house in Haddam, Connecticut, USA on Saturday, "critically injuring" the pilot.

The video, filmed by a by-stander, shows the plane tumbling into the house on Little Meadow Road at around 4pm.

There was a man inside the house at the time of the incident but he was "unharmed," according to local reports.

However, the pilot, a 46-year-old man from New York, was seriously injured.