Plane crash-lands near Vic school oval

A light plane has crash-landed in a paddock near a primary school south of Ballarat. Source: AAP

A LIGHT plane has crash-landed in a paddock next to a Victorian primary school during lunchtime.

Cape Clear Primary School principal Christian Brown said some of his students saw the plane come down.

"It was a very lucky escape," Mr Brown told AAP.

"We're about 150m away from the crash site."

An ambulance officer who attended said the pilot did a good job avoiding the school.

The two men in the aircraft walked away from the crash with only minor injuries.

The plane's wing clipped a powerline, cutting power to about 60 Cape Clear properties in the small town south of Ballarat.

The pilot, a man in his 50s, and a male passenger in his 40s sustained bruises and abrasions but didn't need to go to hospital.

Ambulance Victoria group manager Graham McGrath said the powerline caught the undercarriage of the aircraft, and it came down nose-first.

"The pilot had done a really good job to make sure it was in an open paddock away from the school," he said.

Robert Butler, who owns the Cape Clear hotel, said he saw the plane hovering around, looking for somewhere to land.

"The plane they said is pretty well messed up," Mr Butler said.

"The two blokes got out with a scratch and a bruise."

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