Plane crashes in Gordonton field

A plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Gordonton this morning. Photo / Sourced

A Coromandel pilot has escaped injury after crashing his plane into a maize field in the Waikato this morning.

Waikato police Shift Sergeant Dale Smith said the pilot safely landed on the privately-owned airstrip on farmland on Ballard Rd, Gordonton, and travelled South about 40 metres when the right wing has clipped the maize field.

The plane has then yanked itself right and submerged the first half of the plane in the maize, damaging both wings and the front of the plane.

The pilot, aged in his mid-50s, was shaken but uninjured.

Mr Smith said the pilot was landing to pick up the owner of the plane who was waiting at the airfield.

"It was a very routine landing and for whatever reason he has just clipped the maize and caused it to veer into it."

The incident had been reported to the Civil Aviation Authority who would now investigate.
The owner of the plane was from the Waikato.

Emergency services were at the scene, after the plane had made an emergency landing in a field in Horsham Downs in Gordonton, northern communications shift Inspector Chris Money said.

There were three people on board the plane, and none was injured in the crash, he said.

- NZME