{"id":465072,"date":"2026-02-07T20:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465072\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:53:13","slug":"small-plane-crashes-in-normanton-north-west-queensland-starting-grass-fire-and-knocking-out-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465072\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plane crashes in Normanton, north-west Queensland, starting grass fire and knocking out power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A light aircraft has crashed 800 metres west of Normanton Airport, north-west Queensland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services rushed to the scene just after 8pm AEST, near the Gulf of Carpentaria.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Only the pilot was on board, police said, adding that his injuries remain unknown and that the response to the incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The crash started a small grass fire which has knocked out power for local residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Police and emergency services are at the scene of a small plane crash in Normanton,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The incident occurred just after 8pm, 800 meters west of Normanton Airport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Normanton is an outback town that sits in a flood zone in the Gulf of Carpentaria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Like neighbouring towns Burketown and Karumba, Normanton is routinely isolated for months at a time due to flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A light aircraft has crashed 800 metres west of Normanton Airport, north-west Queensland.\u00a0 Emergency services rushed to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,238125,94494,238124,89345,44,203174,57805],"class_list":["post-465072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-burketown","tag-gulf-of-carpentaria","tag-karumba","tag-light-plane","tag-news","tag-normanton","tag-plane-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465072","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=465072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}