WA: Two men survive light plane crash in Eneabba

AAP General News (Australia)
12-16-2007
WA: Two men survive light plane crash in Eneabba

PERTH, Dec 16 AAP - Two men have escaped serious injury after their light plane ripped
apart in a crash landing in Western Australia's northern wheatbelt.

Insp John Gibson said the two men from Eneabba, about 280km north of Perth, crash landed
in a paddock at the Rainbow Valley Farm, about 7km north of the small farming and mining
town about 1pm (WDT) today.

Police and emergency services were called to the crash scene in WA's midwest region,
just before 1pm (WDT).

Insp Gibson said it was understood the plane crashed as the men, aged in their 50s,
approached a farm airstrip.

"The very early indication is that it was coming in to land, it may have hit power
lines and the fuselage has been ripped in half," he said.

A St John Ambulance spokeswoman said the men were being airlifted to Royal Perth Hospital
in Perth this afternoon with non-life-threatening injuries.

She said one of the men had injured his right ankle and sustained head injuries and
the other had minor injuries.

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