{"id":71454,"date":"2025-10-11T05:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71454\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T05:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:47:06","slug":"three-killed-as-light-plane-crashes-just-after-take-off-south-of-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71454\/","title":{"rendered":"Three killed as light plane crashes just after take-off south of Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people are dead after a light plane crashed shortly after take-off at a regional airport.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services are at the scene after the aircraft plummeted to the ground soon after departing Shellharbour Airport, south of Sydney, on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were notified of the disaster about 10am.<\/p>\n<p>The plane caught fire upon impact, with the flames extinguished by fire and rescue officers.<\/p>\n<p>Three people are confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p>There are no reports of other people being injured.<\/p>\n<p>A crime scene has been established and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>Senior police are expected to speak to media about the crash on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people are dead after a light plane crashed shortly after take-off at a regional airport. Emergency services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-71454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71454","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=71454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}