Two men in their 30s are rushed to the hospital. They both survived a light plane crash into a soccer field at Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
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Two men are lucky to be alive after their light plane crashed onto a sports field in Sydney’s northern beaches.
The pilot and his passenger were injured when the plane came down at Cromer Park just before 4.30pm on Saturday.
Witnesses reported hearing the engine spluttering overhead before the plane, understood to belong to a flying school, came crashing to the ground.
Cricket and soccer matches were underway at the time, prompting players to flee the pitch.
Northern Beaches man Greg Rollins was playing cricket when he noticed the plane flying dangerously low.
He realised it was heading straight towards his fellow cricketers who were sheltered in a shed and screamed out a warning as the plane got closer.
When it hit the ground he was there to drag the victims out of the wreckage.
He said neither the pilot nor the passenger were in very good shape.
‘He was in shock, he was really in shock, his face was a mess,’ he told the Daily Telegraph.
‘He was okay but I kept talking to him, telling him ‘you’ll be all right mate.
‘(The passenger’s) femur was broken, there was bone sticking out of his skin.’
Another Scott Manning told Nine News it was a horrifying situation to see the plane heading straight towards such a large group of people.
I thought it was going to hit us and then I just saw my dad and girlfriend at the shed and I just lost my mum recently, I don’t want to lose my dad,’ he said.
‘I ran screaming and he somehow just got over the top of that shed. That would have taken out, I’m sure, 12 people.’
The pilot, believed to be aged in his 30s was being treated for spinal injuries as a precaution after reporting lower back pain. Read more from Dailymail
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