Vic: Man killed in crash landing at Mornington
11 Jan 2009 4:56 PM
MELBOURNE, Jan 11 AAP - The pilot of an ultra light plane has died after a crashing into a residential area of Mornington, south of Melbourne.
Victoria Police said the aircraft had tried to land in Craigrossie Road, Mornington.
The person killed was piloting the single-seater aircraft although at the crash scene it was not possible to immediately identify the victim or tell whether they were male or female, they said.
A resident of Craigrossie Road, Meg Turner, said the plane crash landed onto her property.
"It didn't touch the house but went over the other side of the tennis court and into bush and trees," Ms Turner told AAP.
Another resident of Craigrossie Road, who did not wish to be named, said he heard a loud noise as the plane hit trees when it crashed.
"What I heard was a roar like a motor mower in its last gasp and that large roaring noise you get when a motor mower hasn't got any petrol," he said.
"There was a no noise at all, then there was a roar, then there was a thumping noise as it hit the trees. It did not occur to me listening to it that I had heard a plane crash."
He said people on the beach saw the plane flying without power.
"They saw it turn right into the foreshore - their belief was that it had crashed into the foreshore," he said.
"In fact it has crashed, I suppose, 100 metres to the east of the Mornington foreshore."
