A woman miraculously emerged with minimal injuries from the wreckage of a light plane that crashed south of Brisbane, Australia.
Queensland Ambulance Services were called to Lollard St, Hillcrest, within the town of Logan, after reports that the plane crashed around 6:08am on Friday with only the pilot on board.
It is known that the sunshine aircraft went down near the railway corridor.
Paramedics assessed her on the scene and she or he was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital with minor injuries.
Photos from the scene indicate the aircraft was owned by AirMed Australia, an independent medevac company.
FlightRadar24 reports that the Piper PA-31-350 took off from Bankstown about 2 hours and 14 minutes before the crash on Friday.
He was scheduled to fly to Archerfield Airport and was only minutes from landing before the crash.
An AirMed Australia spokesman said the plane was forced to make an emergency landing.
“The plane was carrying cargo between Bankstown Airport and Archerfield Airport when it was forced to land in a field at Hillcrest roughly 15km away [9 miles] from Archerfield,” he said.
“AirMed has notified the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and is assisting the Australian Transport Security Bureau (ATSB) with its investigation.”
Friday’s crash is the third incident in a week where a plane crashed or made an emergency landing in Queensland, Australia.
The missing Cherokee plane was present in the Clarke Ranges west of Proserpine by a Townsville-based QG Air Rescue helicopter on Monday after being reported missing on Sunday.
Renowned cattle farmer Alan Acton died on Tuesday after a helicopter he was piloting crashed during a rally on a private estate in Queensland’s Central Highlands.
The helicopter reportedly crashed during a rally on a private property roughly 60km north of Dingo, Queensland, west of Rockhampton, at around 11:30am.
Mr Acton, who was piloting the helicopter, died on the scene despite emergency medical services being called at around 11.30am.
He was the one person on board the plane.