{"id":722466,"date":"2026-06-08T05:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722466\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:51:10","slug":"moorabbin-airport-teenage-pilot-survives-light-plane-crash-at-airport-in-south-east-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722466\/","title":{"rendered":"Moorabbin Airport: Teenage pilot survives light plane crash at airport in south-east Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A light plane has crashed at an airport in south-east <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\/61\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-ezrozd dxCwVA\">Melbourne.<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"block-71d3c68a-243c-43d3-8b9c-61c35a92498f\">Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) responded to an incident at Moorabbin Airport, about 21 kilometres from the CBD, about 11.16am following reports of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/plane-crash\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-ezrozd dxCwVA\">plane crash on the runway.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters responded to the incident at Moorabbin Airport about 11.16am.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/be5db25172c3a4d23dd65e31768038f90bf7552e5a3836296bc09f7a8859045e.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Firefighters responded to the incident at Moorabbin Airport about 11.16am.\u00a09News<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters arrived to find a single engine plane had landed on the runway without the nose gear deploying, known as a belly landing.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot, a teenage female, was able to safely evacuate the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to Dandenong Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was deemed under control by 12.09pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A light plane has crashed at an airport in south-east Melbourne. Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) responded to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-722466","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\/722466","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=722466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}