{"id":375769,"date":"2025-12-28T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T09:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/375769\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T09:52:15","slug":"tasmanian-woman-dies-in-glider-crash-at-tunbridge-pilot-airlifted-to-royal-hobart-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/375769\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian woman dies in glider crash at Tunbridge, pilot airlifted to Royal Hobart Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Tasmanian woman has died in a two-seater glider crash at a private airfield in Tunbridge, in Tasmania&#8217;s southern midlands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Tasmania Police said the crash occurred shortly before 2pm at the airfield on Tunbridge Tier Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The woman, aged in her early 50s, died from injuries sustained in the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Tasmanian man in his 60s, who was the pilot in the aircraft, sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to the Royal Hobart Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Tasmania Police Inspector Aleena Crack said the pair were part of a larger group, which included the woman&#8217;s husband, who were at the airfield on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;This is obviously a tragic outcome for these families and friends,&#8221; Inspector Crack said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The cause of the crash will be investigated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services remain at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tasmanian woman has died in a two-seater glider crash at a private airfield in Tunbridge, in Tasmania&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,202659,44,47388,202660,202658,202661],"class_list":["post-375769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-glider-crash","tag-news","tag-royal-hobart-hospital","tag-southern-midlands-crash","tag-tunbridge","tag-tunbridge-tier-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}