UPSIDE DOWN: Emergency services staff were examining the aircraft in the field.

A pilot and passenger received minor injuries when their light aircraft flipped over while landing in a field this afternoon near Dargaville, Northland.

Dargaville Police Sergeant Nick Wilson said the plane crash-landed about 5pm today.

UPSIDE DOWN: The practice landing did not go according to plan for the pilot.

The pilot flew in from the west to practise an emergency landing but stalled and flipped.

Emergency services were not informed of the accident until about an hour later.

Farmer James Hutchison, who works on the farm that the plane crashed on, said he was at a nearby house and saw the plane fly over.

UPSIDE DOWN: The practice landing did not go according to plan for the pilot.

About 15 minutes later, people from the Dargaville Aero Club told him they had picked up the two occupants of the aircraft.



