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Old 26th Mar 2006, 08:22
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A quick search of ABC news produced the following

Light plane crashes onto highway near Hobart
A teenager and her father have had a lucky escape after their light plane crashed onto a highway near Hobart this afternoon.

Police say the 19-year-old trainee pilot was taking off from Hobart airport when her light plane lost power.

The pilot alerted the control tower and attempted to land the plane in a paddock on the other side of the Tasman Highway, but the plane clipped a three-metre-high fence and flipped onto its back.

Police say the woman and her father were not injured but the woman has been treated at the Royal Hobart Hospital for shock.

The highway has been re-opened to traffic.

Inspector Paul Gray, of Tasmania Police, says the pair were lucky to escape without any injuries.

"The fence has been knocked over, the plane doesn't appear to be badly damaged at all," he said.

"But I certianly wouldn't want to fly in it for a while."
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