{"id":226133,"date":"2018-12-21T12:23:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T02:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=226133"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:38:22","slug":"pilot-walks-away-from-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/12\/21\/pilot-walks-away-from-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Walks Away From Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>December 21, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is gathering further information about the forced landing of cropduster near the Bunya Highway on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The plane came down about 400m from the highway, about five kilometres north of Dalby, just after 5:00am.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot, a 78-year-old man, managed to extricate himself from the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said he suffered only minor injuries in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The plane, a single-engine Ayres S2R, was extensively damaged in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the aircraft, which is registered to AGAV Pty Ltd at Dalby, had just taken off from Dalby Airport in preparation to spread fertilizer on a nearby property.<\/p>\n<p>An ATSB spokesman said a decision would be made on Friday afternoon whether a formal investigation would be held into the incident.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WIN News on Facebook<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2';\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WINNewsToowoomba\/photos\/a.664177500284894\/1989947807707850\/?type=3\" data-width=\"740\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WINNewsToowoomba\/photos\/a.664177500284894\/1989947807707850\/?type=3\"><p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WINNewsToowoomba\/\">WIN News Toowoomba<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is gathering further information about the forced landing of cropduster near the Bunya Highway on Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":277836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[25,1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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