A light aircraft crashed after a pilot confused his left and right hands, an investigation has found.
The plane was trying to land when it struck trees and crashed on a congested road of cars outside Aston Down airfield in Gloucestershire last August.
Both men on the Grob 109B motorglider aircraft were injured with the passenger suffering significant spinal injuries that left him in hospital for several days.
The aircraft owner Christopher Tooze, 70, was flying with someone who had a 'significant profile within the gliding world' and was a friend of a prospective buyer of the plane.
Mr Tooze had allowed him to take the controls to give him an experience flight.
