A pilot walked away with non-life threatening injuries after a plane crash between Mareeba and Dimbulah on Saturday.
AVIATION authorities are investigating after engine problems caused a light plane to plunge into bushland between Mareeba and Dimbulah on Saturday.
About noon, emergency services were called to Chettle Rd, about 50km southwest of Cairns, where a 69-year-old pilot had crash landed his two-seater light aircraft.
He was pulled to safety by witnesses, while also managing to extinguish a small fire that started inside the plane.
A Queensland Fire and Emergency Service spokeswoman said firefighters used a foam blanket to stem fuel leaking from the 400-litre tank.
They remained on scene for more than three hours and the crash closed Chettle Rd in both directions.
The pilot suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to Mareeba Hospital.
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The North Queensland Aero Club declined to comment on the incident, which is being investigated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
Far North Queensland has had its share of minor and major air mishaps.
In August 2009, a pilot and passenger miraculously walked away unscathed after the undercarriage of a restored WWII warbird collapsed as they were attempting to land at Mareeba airport.
Six years earlier at the same site, a NSW family of five were killed when a twin-engine Piper Aztec crashed shortly after take off.
(Culled from cairnspost.com.au)
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