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Plane crashes in paddock

Posted August 29, 2008 18:00:00
Updated August 29, 2008 19:38:00

A 58-year-old woman suffered minor cuts to the head in a light plane crash near Swan Hill in north-west Victoria this afternoon.

She was a passenger in the plane which was flown by a 67-year-old man.

He was treated for shock.

The plane came down in a paddock on Dog Netting Road at Cokum after the engine cut out.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space-accidents, vic, lake-boga-3584, swan-hill-3585

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