Pilot freed from wreckage after Bankstown Airport plane crash

Emergency services have freed a pilot who was trapped inside a plane, after crashed onto its roof at Bankstown Airport.

A pilot is in a critical condition after his light plane crashed onto its roof at Bankstown Airport this afternoon.

Emergency services were called to Bankstown Airport around 3.40pm, following reports the aircraft had crashed on the runway and flipped on impact, trapping the male pilot, aged in his 60s.

The incident occurred at Bankstown Airport. (AAP Image/Melvyn Knipe)

The pilot was the only person on-board the four-seater plane and was conscious and breathing when crews arrived.

Seven NSW Ambulance crews attended the scene, and worked for almost an hour to stabilise the man before Fire and Rescue crews extricated him from the aircraft.

“This was a potentially dangerous scene, with fuel leaking from a light plane that had crashed,” NSW Ambulance inspector Craig Watkins said.

“Once the scene was made safe by Fire and Rescue NSW, paramedics accessed the patient

and began treating him for multiple injuries when he went into cardiac arrest.

“Paramedics performed CPR and succeeded in restarting the man’s heart before taking him to

hospital.”

He was taken to Liverpool Hospital in a critical condition.