{"id":160661,"date":"2025-11-30T04:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/160661\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T04:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:06:08","slug":"sydney-mid-air-crash-one-pilot-dead-after-planes-collide-near-wedderburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/160661\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney mid-air crash: One pilot dead after planes collide near Wedderburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clareese Packer<\/p>\n<p>news.com.au\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>30 Nov, 2025 03:13 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A pilot has died after two planes crashed mid-air in southwest Sydney. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A pilot has died after two planes crashed mid-air in southwest Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two light planes collided mid-air before one of the planes crashed into nearby bush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The body of a pilot, believed to be the sole occupant of the plane, was found by emergency services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The other plane managed to<br \/>\n         land safely at the airfield, and that pilot was not injured.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">The fatal collision happened just before midday in the vicinity of Napperfield Airfield in Wedderburn, near Appin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clareese Packer news.com.au\u00b7 30 Nov, 2025 03:13 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,28647,3549,15979,690,6179,42,79,3180,43,5270,19723,31843,33553,1734,40,38,41,39,105749],"class_list":["post-160661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-collide","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-headlines","tag-midair","tag-near","tag-news","tag-one","tag-pilot","tag-planes","tag-southwest","tag-sydney","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wedderburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}