A light plane crashed in Taranaki on Sunday, leaving a top dressing pilot dead.
Kevin Ross Brown, 48, died at the scene when his single engine plane crashed on a farming property in Tarata, 19km east of Ingelwood.
The Taranaki Rescue helicopter, police, ambulance and fire personal attended the crash scene which happened about noon at a rural area inland from Inglewood.
The plane crashed into the hillside not far from the airstrip.
Five fire engines were called in from Stratford, Inglewood and New Plymouth to attend the scene.
Brown, from Stratford, was the only person in the aircraft.
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“It looked as is if it had just taken off, because it was facing away from the airstrip”, say Van Lieshout, Taranaki Rescue helicopter pilot, who was the fist on the scene.
Lieshout says the plane had broken up on impact, but was pretty much in one piece with its wings still attached.
“It’s been a pretty reasonable sort of impact, I would imagine,” he says.
The weather was fine and Lieshout says he was not sure what may have caused the crash.
The area was rural, made up of paddocks with moderately hilly to steep terrain.
“I don’t think he’s hit anything and then fallen out of the sky. He’s certainly come to grief with the side of the hill, that’s for sure, ” he says.
The Civil Aviation Authority is investigating.
An aircraft crash investigator would visit the crash site on Monday, Senior Sergeant Matt Prendergast, of Waitara police, says.
Police would also investigate and would be reporting the death to the coroner.
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A light plane crashed in Taranaki on Sunday, leaving a top dressing pilot dead.