A pilot has been taken to hospital after his plane missed the runway at the Illawarra Regional Airport and hit the boundary fence.
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At 9.10am on Saturday emergency services, including fire crews from Dapto and HAZMAT crews from Albion Park and Shellharbour, were called to the airport at Albion Park Rail for a light plane that had crashed on landing.
“As it’s approached for landing it has come into difficulties,” said NSW Fire and Rescue Illawarra duty commander Trent Lawrence.
“It’s landed on the side of the runway and travelled about 150 metres on the grass on the side of the east-west runway at Albion Park.
Commander Lawrence said the two-seater plane was travelling west along the grass and got entangled in the airport’s boundary fence.
The fence caused the plane to flip and one wing was damaged.
“The crews uprighted the aircraft because of the fuel that was leaking, to stop the fuel,” Commander Lawrence said.
There was a pilot on the plane but no passenger.
The pilot suffered slight head injuries and was transported by ambulance to hospital.