London, Feb 25: An elderly couple had a lucky escape after a plane crashed into their garden as they sat watching TV.

Eileen Watling, 71, and her husband Alfie, 83, were settling down on to watch a movie on television when the aircraft landed in Eileen's conifers.

"It was so sudden. We'd just started watching a film when there was an almighty crash. We thought the whole house had collapsed,” Scotsman quoted Eileen, as saying.

"I looked out of the window and saw the conifers had come down and there were no electricity lines. Then I saw the plane," she added.

The two people in the plane, the pilot and a passenger, had minor injuries as their two-seater Cessna 172 came down in the Watlings' garden in Folkestone, shortly after taking off from nearby Rochester airport.

The plane had narrowly missed a neighbour's house opposite, before hitting power cables and crashing into trees next to the couple's garage, yards from their bungalow.

"When the pilot came out, he was covered in blood – then the passenger came down out of the trees. I managed to get them into the conservatory and got a towel to stop the bleeding from the pilot's head,” Eileen said.

"He said: 'I'm so sorry to do this to you'. And I said: 'Not to worry; your heal

th's more important'," she added.

Following that, the pilot and his passenger were taken to William Harvey Hospital in Ashford for treatment.

It is believed that the plane might have been travelling too low due to the foggy conditions.

"They were flying at 500ft. We're at 600ft here, but because of the fog blanket they didn't see what the problem was," Eileen said.

"We realise just how lucky we've been. The plane was 10ft from our neighbour's house. If it had hit them first, it could have exploded. Somebody was looking out for us," she added. (ANI)