Two light aircraft avoided each other by just ten metres during a near-miss over Kinross.

The microlight and the glider ended up facing each other head-on during the incident near Balado Airfield on April 8.

The pilot of the glider rolled hard to the side and pushed into a dive to avoid the microlight, narrowly dodging it.

The Airprox Board, which investigates near-misses in UK airspace, graded the incident as class B - the second most serious category.

They concluded it occurred because the pilot of the glider did not avoid the traffic pattern of the microlight at Balado.

In its report, the Airprox Board noted: "Both pilots had had to take emergency avoiding action after late sightings.

"Some members thought that the risk had been such that a collision had only been avoided by the bare minimum.

"However, the majority view was that the pilots had probably been sufficiently able to materially increase separation despite the late sighting."