{"id":360,"date":"2007-10-26T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=360"},"modified":"2007-10-26T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T07:56:00","slug":"indian-students-in-nz-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/10\/indian-students-in-nz-plane-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian students in NZ plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;\" >T<\/span>he pilot of a small plane which overshot the runway, clipped a fence and landed in scrub near Omaka Airfield yesterday has been described as a top flying student.<br \/>The pilot and a fellow student, both from India, escaped with minor injuries after the 10.30am crash.<br \/>They were taken to Wairau Hospital where they were treated and discharged yesterday.<br \/>A St John Ambulance spokesman said the 22-year-old pilot suffered minor leg injuries and his 18-year-old passenger suffered minor head injuries.<br \/>The four-seater Cessna 172 came from Feilding and was registered to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airchartermanawatu.co.nz\/\">Air Manawatu<\/a>. The wreckage of the plane was removed by this morning.<br \/>Air Manawatu chief executive Michael Bryant said the pilot was one of the airline&#8217;s top students, with more than 100 hours of flying experience.<br \/>Mr Bryant flew to Omaka as soon as he heard about the crash and took the students home yesterday afternoon.<br \/>He said the students were from India. The pilot had been in the country for about seven months of a planned 10 month stay, while the younger man had only been in New Zealand for a month.<br \/>He said they were here specifically to do the course.<br \/>Mr Bryant could not comment on the cause of the crash but said Air Manawatu would &#8220;most certainly&#8221; be conducting its own investigation.<br \/>Two ambulances, and six fire appliances from Woodbourne, Renwick and Blenheim attended the scene where the plane crashed.<br \/>Sergeant John Butson of Blenheim police said the Cessna was landing in a southeasterly direction on the runway. It failed to come to a stop and clipped a fence between the airfield and the road.<br \/>The plane gathered height and crashed some 150m from the end of the runway, he said.<br \/>Wreckage of the plane was scattered around where it landed. The nose was pointing down and the tail was suspended above a fence on the edge of a bank overlooking the Taylor River.<br \/>Omaka Airfield&#8217;s runway was closed for about 40 minutes after the crash.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">25\/10\/07 The Marlborough Express\/Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pilot of a small plane which overshot the runway, clipped a fence and landed in scrub near Omaka Airfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}