A husband and wife are lucky to be alive after making an emergency landing in their light plane in Noosa in south-east Queensland.
The couple in their 50s crash-landed on Sunday morning in a backyard just yards from a home.
Scott Reeman from Lifeflight stated they were “very lucky”.
“I think the lady said the passenger said she thought she was going to die,” Reeman said.
From above, a trail of destruction can be seen in the little village of Cootharaba, just outside Tewantin on the Sunshine Coast.
The single-engine leisure aircraft was attempting to land when control was lost about 9.10am.
The plane came down after it was smacked by a burst of wind, clipping a nearby palm tree before striking the ground and resting metres from a nearby home.
The woman sustained suspected neck, chest and stomach injuries.
Paramedics reported one patient was transferred to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital and the other declined to get in the ambulance.
The couple whose backyard was utilised as a runway recalled the moment of impact as a huge noise which echoed throughout the tranquil neighbourhood.
A Queensland Police Service representative described the incident as a difficult landing at a private airport, after the jet ran into trouble.
It comes days after two men had to be rescued after their light plane crashed into the water off the Sunshine Coast, sparking a large rescue operation.
