Emergency services rushed to a farm east of Castlemaine on Friday afternoon, but the male pilot died at the scene.
Emergency services were called to Coliban Park Road in Redesdale shortly after 12.30pm on Friday in response to reports of a light aircraft crash.Victoria Police confirmed the male pilot – the sole occupant of the aircraft – died at the scene.
“It is believed the pilot was flying over private property ... when the aircraft crashed about 12.30pm,” police said in a statement.Nearby resident Ashley Scott told ABC News he heard a “loud bang” on Friday afternoon. “I’m like, ‘that didn’t sound right’, looked over to the west and saw a parachute, but I heard another explosion at the same time and it was an impact on the ground sort of thing,” he said.Scott said he drove to the crash site and saw a “massive ball of flames”.Two people died in a light plane crash
at Mount Beauty Airport in Victoria’s north-east in April this year. Pilot Greig Wanless, 67, and passenger Kate Callingham, 39, were killed after their plane nosedived. The pair intended to distribute the ashes of a loved one over the High Country.
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