June 14, 2007 12:00pm
A PILOT and his passenger have escaped injury after their light plane crashed during an emergency landing south of Adelaide this morning.
Police said the two-seater fixed wing Jabiru plane took off from the Aldinga airstrip this morning but lost power and stalled shortly after.
It flipped as it came down, finally coming to rest among grapevines on a local property about 9.15am today.
The two men on board walked away from the crash but were taken to the nearby Flinders Medical Centre for observation.
A SA Ambulance Service spokeswoman said the two occupants in the aircraft were both "okay".
"The two occupants are out of the plane, they are walking around, they're okay," the ambulance spokeswoman said.
The aircraft landed in a vineyard at Adey Road, Aldinga, about 60km south of Adelaide, the police spokesman said.
A police spokesman said a crane would be brought in to remove the plane with the operation expected to take some time.
This information is from the Adelaide Advertiser. Unfortunately we will probably have to wait some time to find out what went wrong.
