Four people survive crash-landing that ripped light plane apart at Tooradin, south-east of Melbourne

Four people have minor injuries after their light plane crashed near the South Gippsland Highway at Tooradin.

The plane lost control after it was coming into land at the Tooradin Airfield about 1pm, authorities have advised.

Police say a strong gust of wind tipped the plane on its edge and it then careered into three other aircraft.

“It's clipped a couple of the other parked planes and it's come to rest as we can see behind us in a fairly untidy shape,” Acting Inspector Paul Bruders said.

Witnesses said the plane tumbled a number of times before it came to rest on the airfield.

“A cartwheeling plane came down the runway, hitting other planes,” one witness said.

A five-year-old girl was among the four occupants of the plane, along with the pilot, Stephen Hammond, and passengers Rachel Lehrer and Nathan Hammond.

“Fortunately for everyone involved they're well, the four occupants have been taken to hospital but only as a precautionary measure at this stage,” Mr Bruders said.

No one was trapped in the aircraft and the four patients remain in a stable condition at the Frankston Hospital.  

CCTV footage is expected to form a major part of the police investigation.