Plane crashes on Brooker Hwy Hobart

[Kain C]

http://www.themercury.com.au/article...days-news.html

DANIELLE McKAY

April 04, 2010 12:40pm

UPDATE: A Teenage pilot miraculously walked away after crashing his plane on Hobart's Brooker Hwy today.

Patrick Humphrey, 18, a trainee pilot with the Australian Airforce was practising aerobatics when the engine stalled forcing him down on one of the state's busiest highways just after 10am.

Mr Humphrey escaped uninjured despite his plane losing a wing and landing gear when the single-engined aircraft clipped a tree as he made an emergency landing flying south into the on-coming traffic just beyond Cleary's Gates and before the clover-leaf overpass.

The plane spun out of control for 100m down the highway scattering debris, before crashing into an embankment.

Mr Humphrey's then stepped from his plane and ran down the road to stop traffic.

Witnesses said Mr Humphrey's planed circled and glided for a few minutes over New Town and Cornelian Bay after the engine had stopped before the emergency landing.

Emergency service crews described the incident as a miracle landing.