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Minutes from DISASTER: Pilot Trapped, Injured in Twisted Light Plane Wreckage – Southern Highlands CRASH DRAMA!

A pilot has been freed after becoming trapped in the wreckage of a light plane that crashed in the NSW Southern Highlands.

Emergency services were called to Medway Rd in Berrima about 7.45am Thursday after reports a light plane had crashed into a paddock.

A light plane crashed in the NSW Southern Highlands on Thursday. Picture: ABC

When ambulance, police and fire crews arrived, they found the pilot trapped inside the wreckage.

Police said the 58-year-old man, who was the sole occupant of the aeroplane, is believed to have been inside the wreckage “for some time” before he was freed.

The pilot was freed from the wreckage after being trapped ‘for some time’. Picture: ABC

He sustained leg injuries and was treated at the scene by paramedics, before he was flown to Liverpool Hospital.

Aviation authorities have been notified and are investigating the incident.