BY IAN CROUCH
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has launched an investigation into the crash of a light aircraft at Luskintyre near Maitland which left the pilot with serious burns and fractures.
A 48-year-old man from Hinton suffered burns to 80 percent of his body when the Mooney light aircraft crashed and exploded in flames at about 2.00pm on Monday.
NSW Ambulance Inspector Jake Broughton-Rouse says the man was out of the aircraft when paramedics arrived.
He was placed in an induced coma and flown to the burns unit at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital by the region's Westpac Rescue Helicopter.
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| The 48-year-old pilot suffered critical burns in the crash Picture: NSW Ambulance |
