A trainee pilot was uninjured after crashing during a “low-speed runway excursion” at a Royal Australian Air Force base.
It is understood the student was controlling a PC-21 Roulette aircraft when it crashed at the RAAF Base in East Sale, southeast Victoria, on Thursday.
The student was taken to the base medical center for evaluation, but was not injured in the accident.
A man who was there after the accident counted 20 emergency vehicles that had gathered to secure the area.
The incident will be investigated.
There are currently six Roulettes in the RAAF aerobatic display team being flown at events across Australia.
They can fly at a height of up to 80 meters and at speeds of up to 685 kilometers per hour.
Pilots require years of training to properly maneuver the planes during displays where they often fly less than three meters apart in the air.
A student at the RAAF base at East Sale (pictured), southeast Victoria, escaped uninjured after crashing during a “low-speed runway excursion”
Meanwhile, another student pilot was forced to make an emergency landing on a popular Sunshine Coast beach after engine failure on Friday.
Queensland Police confirmed the small plane landed on Bulcock Beach in Caloundra at 9am and that neither the student nor the instructor on board were injured.
Tomas Murray, another flight instructor, praised the instructor on board who “followed all the correct procedures during the emergency.”
‘The engine failed somehow. We don’t know the details and will be investigating,” Murray wrote on social media.
“The plane is fine, but the flight engineers will evaluate it and a report will be prepared.”
More to come
Meanwhile, another student pilot was forced to make an emergency landing on a popular Sunshine Coast beach after engine failure on Friday.