Couple lucky to survive after light plane ‘cartwheeled’ across Queensland backyard during crash landing

Woman passenger airlifted to Sunshine Coast hospital after plane flown by her husband somersaulted and crashed into tree at Cootharaba, near Noosa

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A couple are lucky to be alive after a plane “cartwheeled end to end” in a backyard when it tried to land on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

A woman in her 50s was airlifted to hospital after the light plane flown by her husband crashed near a private airstrip at Cootharaba near Noosa on Sunday.

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