A Poole man, who died alongside his friend from Bournemouth when their light aircraft crashed in Hampshire last year, may have opted against an emergency landing for fear of harming others.

Experience pilots Shorland Hosking and Richard Wheeler died in April 2010 after coming down in a field, but managed to avoid thousands of people attending a motor sport event nearby.

An inquest's recorded a verdict of accidental death, after hearing Mister Hosking had shown 'considerable presence of mind' in possbily saving other lives.