{"id":536223,"date":"2026-07-21T03:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/536223\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:34:12","slug":"hard-landing-light-plane-on-its-roof-after-canterbury-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/536223\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hard landing&#8217;: Light plane on its roof after Canterbury crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small aircraft has crashed upon landing and ended up in its roof in rural Canterbury this morning. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Hoskyns Rd and West Coast Road in Kirwee at 10.20am after reports of a &#8220;hard landing by a small aircraft&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency NZ responded with three crews from Kirwee, Burnham Camp and Rolleston. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No serious injuries have been reported,&#8221; a police spokesperson said. Hato Hone St John said one person was assessed at the scene in a &#8220;minor condition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-plane-had-landed-on-its-roof-VDO76B67ANAYBHXUKXEO3NFN6E.jpg\" alt=\"The plane had landed on its roof.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">The plane had landed on its roof. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>Crews were still present in Kiriwee &#8220;make the scene safe&#8221;, according to FENZ. <\/p>\n<p>The Civil Aviation Authority had been notified. <\/p>\n<p>Kiriwee is located around 34km from Chrischurch&#8217;s city centre. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including a triumphant welcome for Spain\u2019s footballers, and a 1 in 15 million birth in Australia. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small aircraft has crashed upon landing and ended up in its roof in rural Canterbury this morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-536223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536223","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=536223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}