Sydney: Some 30 km away from Sydney Olympic Park, where the Indian cricket team is in quarantine ahead of their Tour Down Under, an airplane crashed at the Cromer Park on Saturday (November 14). Some local guys who were playing cricket and football ran away in shock.
Cricket and football matches were going on when the plane crashed into the field, just missing a sporting shed where about a dozen people were gathered. The players ran hastily on seeing the plane approaching.
“I yelled out to the guys in the shed, I just said run. They started running,” Greg Rollins, the senior vice-president of the Cromer Cricket Club was quoted as saying to stuff.co.nz.
Scott Manning, whose father and girlfriend were inside the sporting shed told Nine Network, “I ran screaming and he (the pilot) somehow just got over the top of that shed. That would have taken out, I’m sure, 12 people.”
In an act of bravery, not getting afraid for their own safety, Rollins and two more players ran towards the plane to help the occupants.
“The plane started to smoke and I thought we had to get these guys out. The plane looked like it was going to blow up. The victims were still conscious but they were ‘not in a good way’. One guy, his face wasn’t good. They hit hard enough to do a lot of damage but they’re alive, that’s the main thing,” Rollins was quoted as saying.
The two occupants of the plane, which reportedly belonged to a flying school and crashed after its engine blocked mid-air, have survived despite the injuries.
