A search is underway for a plane missing in New South Wales.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were notified at 4:30pm yesterdaTuesday that a light aircraft was overdue arriving at Moruya Airport on the Far South Coast.<\/p>\n
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said the aircraft was flying from Wangaratta in Victoria with one person on board.<\/p>\n
“Its last known position was in the Snowy Mountains, east of Khancoban, New South Wales,” a spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“AMSA\u2019s Essendon-based Challenger jet, Victorian ambulance emergency medical helicopter and a Toll rescue helicopter from Bankstown are assisting with the air search in this area.”<\/p>\n
NSW Police said it was possible the plane crashed about 500 metres off Dargals Trail in the Snowy Valleys.<\/p>\n
A search involving multiple agencies commenced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
A ground and aerial search assisted by NSW Police, NSW SES, the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and Snowy Hydro continues.<\/p>\n
The AMSA said the aerial search near Khancoban was suspended as of 4pm Wednesday”due to limited visibility” and would continue Thursday, weather permitting.<\/p>\n
The ground search will continue until nightfall and is expected to recommence at first light.<\/p>\n
“The ground-search teams will be faced with rugged and inaccessible alpine terrain impacted by recent heavy snow falls,” an AMSA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday temperatures at Khancoban ranged between five and 10 degrees Celsius, with snow showers forecast above 1,000 metres.<\/p>\n
Snow showers are forecast for Thursday about the alpine ranges and temperatures near the search area expected to be as low as 2C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A search is underway for a plane missing in New South Wales. Emergency services were notified at 4:30pm…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48125,4740,48124,48127,50,9309,48123,48128,48126],"class_list":{"0":"post-67926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-amsa","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australian-maritime-safety-authority","11":"tag-moruya-airport","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nsw-police","14":"tag-plane-missing-nsw","15":"tag-plane-missing-snowy-mountains","16":"tag-search-for-missing-plane-nsw"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114864524421294093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}