One injured after plane crash at Mercer Airport

[Dave Homewood]

One injured after plane crash at Mercer Airport UPDATED
By Grace Cabell
Thursday 1 Oct 2015 1:33 p.m.

One person has received minor injuries following a small plane crash at Mercer's airstrip, south of Auckland.

Fire communications shift adviser Colin Underdown said four fire appliances and one support vehicle were on route to the scene at Koheroa Road.

He said the sole occupant of the plane had received minor injuries.

3 News



Read more: www.3news.co.nz/nznews/one-injured-after-plane-crash-at-mercer-airport-2015100113#ixzz3nHIBRs3b

[baronbeeza]

Four fire appliances !!!

Could it be a Bantam or similar ? Maybe he is stuck up a tree..

[baronbeeza]

OK, here we go.
Not that I trust this 'news'paper much either...

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11522158

Light plane crash at Mercer Airfield
2:05 PM Thursday Oct 1, 2015



A pilot suffered a cut to his arm after a microlight plane had a crash at Mercer Airfield today.

Colin Underdown of Northern Fire Communications said the crash was minor and the pilot was able to get out of the plane on his own.

"The pilot had a severe gash to his arm," he said.

"We've handed the patient over to ambulance."

Sounds like a not-so-bad outcome. Having an ambulance on the scene would be a bonus.

*** EDIT ***

TV One have it all sorted. It was a ..... ummm.. a microlight.



www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/one-injured-in-plane-crash-south-of-auckland-q13376

One person has been injured in a plane crash at Mercer Airfield, south of Auckland, this afternoon.

Source: ONE News

Emergency services rushed to the scene at about 1.15pm to find one person had suffered a gash to their arm during the mircolight crash.

No one else was hurt in the crash.