{"id":89901,"date":"2026-09-07T06:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/89901\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T06:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:26:19","slug":"two-dead-after-light-plane-crashes-and-sparks-fire-at-logan-south-of-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/89901\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after light plane crashes and sparks fire at Logan, south of Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Two people have died after a light plane crashed and sparked a grass fire at Logan, south of Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services were called to a property at Musch Road at Stockleigh shortly after 11am today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Beech A36 Bonanza aircraft took off from Archerfield Airport less than 10 minutes earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The crash sparked a grass fire, which took eight crews about an hour to contain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Logan district officer Chief Superintendent Mel Adams said the scene was &#8220;confronting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Our care at the moment is to our emergency service responders and of course the family when we can make contact with them,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emergency services at the scene of a light plane crash at Chambers Flats\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/66d357a3013bb0133945131615c28247.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Emergency services were called to a property at Stockleigh shortly after 11am. (ABC News: Lucy Loram)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Ms Adams urged any witnesses to contact police immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Anybody that may have witnessed the aircraft hit the ground, it was close to a roadway, please as a matter of priority contact police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In a statement the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said it had commenced an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A team of three transport safety investigators specialising in aircraft operations, maintenance and engineering have been sent to the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The ATSB said a preliminary report on the incident would be published in about eight weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died after a light plane crashed and sparked a grass fire at Logan, south of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99,154096,844,154204,2152,1999,1988,211,212],"class_list":["post-89901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brisbane","tag-brisbane","tag-chambers-flat","tag-fire","tag-grass-fire","tag-light-plane","tag-plane","tag-plane-crash","tag-qld","tag-queensland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}