Peter Malinauskas<\/a>, said he had been briefed by the police commissioner, Grant Stevens, on the \u201ctragic incident\u201d, which authorities said involved a twin-engined Diamond DA42 aircraft.<\/p>\n\u201cI have just been briefed by the commissioner for police on the tragic incident at Parafield this afternoon, where a small plane has crashed into a hangar,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo people have lost their lives and a number of others have been injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy thoughts are with the families and loved ones of those who have passed away, and with everyone affected by this devastating event.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fire in the hangar had been extinguished and the airfield was closed, he said.<\/p>\n
Emergency services remained on the scene.<\/p>\n
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said a team of transport safety investigators from Canberra and Brisbane would arrive at the site on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
They would undertake site and wreckage inspection and recover aircraft components for examination at the ATSB\u2019s technical facilities in Canberra.<\/p>\n
The area has been evacuated and authorities have asked the public to avoid the area around the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died and multiple others injured after a small plane landing at a suburban airport crashed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-638132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638132","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=638132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}