The block was found embedded in a grassed area
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A pilot has been fined £1,000 after a concrete block fell from his plane and landed near children playing tennis.
The one-foot square slab landed in the car park of the Northumberland Lawn Tennis Club in Jesmond, Newcastle, during a flight on 9 May.
Alan Gibson of Harpenden, in Hertfordshire, admitted failing to carry out a pre-flight check correctly at Gosforth Magistrates' Court.
He was also ordered to pay £715 costs. The block was used to anchor planes.
The block fell from a four-seater Piper Cherokee light aircraft which had just left Newcastle Airport.
The Civil Aviation Authority and Northumbria Police brought the case to court.
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