A plane has made a forced landing on a golf course after a loud “bang” was heard as it crashed onto the green as a training flight was under way
A plane crash landed on a golf course, with players reporting a loud “bang” before the aircraft plummeted from the sky onto the green.
The Piper Cherokee was forced to make an emergency landing during a training flight. Miraculously, the two people on board escaped serious injury when it came down near the beachside course.
One of the occupants sustained minor facial injuries and both were treated at the crash site by paramedics. The cause of the crash remains unknown, but officials have suggested engine trouble could be to blame.
The incident occurred at Mona Vale Golf Club in New South Wales, Australia, with visible damage to the plane’s wing and its wheels detached. The pair, both in their 50s, were later taken to Royal North Shore Hospital for further checks.
In a TikTok video, one witness described how the aircraft “just fell out of the sky,” reports the Mirror.
Another added: “It was crazy, we literally just heard this noise, and then all of a sudden it went bang. And next thing you know, these guys are still playing their golf game, pretending like a plane just hasn’t fallen from the sky.”
Keanu Turnewich told ABC he had been waiting for a friend to take a swing when he noticed a “nice big shadow came over the top.”
He continued: “I thought, ‘It’s a big bird’ and looked up and there was an airplane close enough I could have thrown a club up and hit it.
“It was dead silence. About 30 seconds later, we had a big crunching sound…then all the ambulances and everything started coming past and sirens for 20, 30 minutes. By the time we got back up around, there was an airplane on the golf course.”
Another witness who was at Kitcher Park When the plane came down told ABC: “I was talking to another lady and we just saw the plane come up from the south, and then head back down to the south, and then come back up to the north and dip its wings.
“I’m a lifesaver, I’m in the area, I don’t know if I have to go and help, I thought there were mass casualties. “”.
Data from Flight Tracker showed the aircraft took off from Shellharbour, close to Wollongong, on Sunday afternoon (local time) and then it made a stop in Camden before it continued to fly north. Officials are now gathering information about the landing, although it is unclear whether it would carry out a formal investigation.
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