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Police were alerted to a light plane incident about 12.15pm. Image / Google
A plane has “tipped over on landing”, injuring two people – one seriously.
The incident at Dargaville Aerodrome, 57km west of Whāngārei, was reported to police as a plane crash at 12.15pm, a police spokeswoman said.
Two people had been taken by St John Ambulance to hospital – the seriously injured person to Whāngārei Base Hospital and the moderately injured person to Dargaville Hospital, a St John spokeswoman said.
A man who answered the phone at Dargaville Aero Club said a two-seater plane, an RV, had tipped over on landing.
He had no other details.
Police and Fire and Emergency had since been stood down, the police spokeswoman said.
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