{"id":584126,"date":"2026-08-29T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584126\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:46:10","slug":"light-plane-crash-at-whanganui-airport-leaves-one-person-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584126\/","title":{"rendered":"Light plane crash at Whanganui Airport leaves one person seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">A Fire and Emergency spokesperson said crews responded with four engines from Whanganui Station.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A light plane crashed in dunes near Whanganui Airport late on Saturday afternoon. Photo \/ Fin Ocheduszko Brown\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A light plane crashed in dunes near Whanganui Airport late on Saturday afternoon. Photo \/ Fin Ocheduszko Brown<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Firefighters helped remove one person from the aircraft before the patient was taken to hospital by ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said it was notified of the incident at 4.48pm and responded with an ambulance and a critical care unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Whanganui Airport\u2019s manager said the matter had been dealt with and the airport remained open, but could not provide further details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">The Civil Aviation Authority has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fire and Emergency spokesperson said crews responded with four engines from Whanganui Station. A light plane crashed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11730,2681,1975,3549,10933,7973,6804,3180,111,43,139,69,5270,4056,15026,23419,1961,1883],"class_list":["post-584126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-afternoon","tag-airport","tag-at","tag-crash","tag-injured","tag-leaves","tag-light","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-person","tag-plane","tag-seriously","tag-this","tag-whanganui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584126","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=584126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}