Australia India Tour: About 30 km from Sydney Olympic Park, where the Indian cricket team is in quarantine, local cricketers and footballers survived a scare and fled after a small plane crashed on the Cromer Park sports ground where they were playing the Saturday.
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Cricket and soccer matches were underway when the plane hurtled onto the field, only missing a sports shed where about a dozen people gathered. Players ran wildly as they saw the plane approach.
“I yelled at the guys in the shed, just told them to run. They started running, ”said Greg Rollins, senior vice president of the Cromer Cricket Club, telling stuff.co.nz
Scott Manning, whose father and girlfriend were inside the sports shed told Nine Network, “I ran screaming and he [the pilot] somehow just got over that shed. That would have eliminated, I’m sure, 12 people. “
The two occupants of the plane, which allegedly belonged to a flight school and crashed after the engine stopped mid-air, survived despite injuries.
