{"id":549968,"date":"2026-03-19T06:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/549968\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T06:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:16:16","slug":"passengers-taken-to-hospital-after-plane-crashes-at-broomes-roebuck-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/549968\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers taken to hospital after plane crashes at Broome’s Roebuck Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

A person has been injured after a light aircraft carrying seven people crashed in Broome, more than 2,000 kilometres north of Perth in WA’s Kimberley region.<\/p>\n

The plane crashed into shallow water at Roebuck Bay about 11:25am, according to witnesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police said one person sustained “minor head injuries”.<\/p>\n

They said there were seven people on board \u2014 two pilots and five passengers \u2014 and no other injuries had been reported.<\/p>\n

Seven taken to hospital<\/p>\n

However, St John Ambulance said it was taking seven people to Broome Hospital.<\/p>\n

“There are no suspected life-threatening injuries,” a spokeswoman said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The ABC understands the plane had taken off from Broome Airport shortly before it crashed.<\/p>\n

\"Mangroves<\/p>\n

The plane crashed in shallow water in Roebuck Bay. (ABC News: Roslyn Butcher)<\/p>\n

Emergency services are at the scene, including marine rescue, police and St John Ambulance, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aviation tracking site flightradar24 shows a Cessna 441 Conquest plane leaving Broome Airport and travelling up to 128 knots (237 kilometres per hour), before it decreases to 93 knots (172 kph) and the data cuts out.<\/p>\n

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A St John spokeswoman said seven people had been taken to Broome Hospital as a result of the crash. (ABC News: Rachel Jackson)<\/p>\n

According to the website, the plane was travelling to Mungalalu Truscott Airport, about 620 kilometres north-east of Broome, and was only in the air for less than three minutes.<\/p>\n

There is no flight data after 11:19am.<\/p>\n

Satellite imagery shows the area where the plane appears to have crashed as a sparsely populated marshy area on the edge of Roebuck Bay, just across the water from the Broome township.<\/p>\n

Plane was ‘dipping quite low’<\/p>\n

Witness Alex MacNamara was on the town jetty and described seeing the plane flying low shortly before it disappeared into the mangroves.<\/p>\n

“I saw it flying and then dipping quite low, and then I just assumed it had passed over the horizon \u2026 it was just a bit past the mangroves,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It looked like it was doing a sort of turn on an angle and then it was just dipping quite low.<\/p>\n

“It just looked like they [emergency services] were coordinating things from the shore; they had their walkie-talkies and some sort of satellite thing.”<\/p>\n

\"Back<\/p>\n

Locals watched the rescue operation taking place at Roebuck Bay from a safe distance. (ABC News: Rachel Jackson)<\/p>\n

Local Bili Putra was fishing when he saw someone being winched from the water by a helicopter.<\/p>\n

“When we were fishing, we saw the helicopter and then the police came with the boat,” Mr Putra said.<\/p>\n

“We were using the phone and then we zoomed in and we saw someone they pulled out from the water.”<\/p>\n

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Roebuck Bay is fringed by mangroves, and is popular for fishing and baoting. (ABC News: Roslyn Butcher)<\/p>\n

Roebuck Bay is a long curve of coast fringed by thick mangroves, popular among locals and tourists for fishing and boating.<\/p>\n

Mungalalu Truscott Airport, where the plane was apparently headed, is close to the northernmost tip of Western Australia.<\/p>\n

It is used as an oil and gas hub for offshore rigs, with regular flights delivering FIFO workers to the isolated airstrip.<\/p>\n

Police said an investigation into the crash was underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has been injured after a light aircraft carrying seven people crashed in Broome, more than 2,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[272055,1348,24513,272053,43,272054,44,57805,41,39,42,40,45],"class_list":["post-549968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-aircraft-crash-broome","tag-breaking-news","tag-broome","tag-broome-plane-crash","tag-headlines","tag-light-aircraft","tag-news","tag-plane-crash","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549968","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=549968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}