One man is dead and a second man critically injured in an aircraft crash in the Hunter Valley yesterday.
\nEmergency services were called to a property on Old Goorangoola Road, Goorangoola, about 35km north-west of Singleton, shortly after 1pm (Sunday 4 July 2021), after reports a recreational light aircraft had crashed.
\nPolice from Hunter Valley Police District attended and located the body of a 40-year-old man, who was a passenger on the aircraft.
\nThe 46-year-old pilot was treated at the scene by ambulance paramedics, before being airlifted to the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney in a critical condition.
\nThere were no other passengers onboard.
\nThe Australian Sports Rotorcraft Association and Australian Transport Safety Bureau has been notified of the incident.
\nA report will be prepared for the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One man is dead and a second man critically injured in an aircraft crash in the Hunter Valley yesterday. Emergency services were called to a property on Old Goorangoola Road, Goorangoola, about 35km north-west of Singleton, shortly after 1pm (Sunday 4 July 2021), after reports a recreational light aircraft had crashed. Police from Hunter Valley … Continue reading “One dead, one critical after aircraft crash – Hunter Valley”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}