Golfers are used to birdies on the course, but planes are a different matter, of course.
So when a single-engine plane crashed on the Mona Vale Golf course near Sydney, Australia, on Sunday afternoon, it made quite an impression on the club members.
“The plane came in really low over the top of our heads, and there was no propeller movement. It didn’t even sound like an engine was on,” golf club member Callum Nicholls told the Manly Observer.
Nicholls said the pilot “banked around the corner here to obviously try and come down the 15th,” but lost altitude coming down, which caused him to skid across the green until the plane stopped.
Nicholls said he and his girlfriend, who is a doctor, were “sort of first on the scene” and that she gave medical attention to the two passengers, described as two men in their 50s.
“They were both okay. One had slight lacerations to the side of his face,” Nicholls said. “We were a bit shocked, but we were kind of stoked we couldn’t finish our round because we weren’t playing great.”
Another man named Jason filmed the crash on his phone.
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“It was losing altitude quite quickly. Something was not right,” he told the Observer. “The sound was a bit jarring, but you could see it was a pretty gentle, textbook kind of landing. All props to the pilot. He managed to bring it down safely.”
A spokesperson for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau told news.com.au that the two men in the plane were a pilot instructor and a student who had left Camden an hour before the crash and were intending to land in Wollongong.
The two men were later taken to Royal North Shore Hospital, where they were reportedly in stable condition.
