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Updated January 02, 2012 21:45:29
Emergency officials say the quick action of holiday-makers helped save a pilot who crashed his ultra-light plane into a lake in Victoria's north-east.
The plane crashed about 400 metres from the shore of Lake Hume near Wodonga just before 3.30pm (AEDT).
The pilot in his 60s had taken off from his hometown of Holbrook, north of Albury, earlier in the afternoon.
No-one else was on board the plane.
MICA paramedic Paul Bellman says the man suffered only minor cuts and was conscious when he was pulled from the water.
"I guess any aircraft crash where you can walk away with minor abrasions is a good landing really," he said.
"He was lucky there were police officers and civilians on site that could quickly respond to assist him and get him out of the water as quickly as they did."
Senior Sergeant Garry Corcoran says the man is lucky to be alive.
"A lot of people here are holidaying and making a day of it today," he said.
"They've gone out and assisted the pilot and he's been brought back to land and has gone to Wodonga Hospital for observation.
"Just under the circumstances I'd say being into water and the impact, there would have been some severe injuries, if not death, if it had have happened under other circumstances."
Victoria Police and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority will investigate the cause of the crash.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space, wodonga-3690, vic, holbrook-2644, nsw First posted January 02, 2012 18:03:20
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