A 73-year-old pilot and his passenger have died after their light plane crashed into an airfield in Queensland.
Two men have been killed in a fiery light plane crash on the northern Gold Coast.
The pair were on-board a light aircraft that crashed into an airfield near Gross Rd, Jacobs Well just before 6am on Tuesday.
Both men suffered life-threatening injuries and died.
Police say the pilot has been identified as a 73-year-old man from Beenleigh.
Firefighters are on the scene to contain a grass fire sparked by the crash.
A Queensland Fire Department spokesman told NewsWire that 14 crews were called to the airfield after the plane crash-landed and sparked a “large grass fire”.
Crews are working to keep the fire under control and have requested additional air support as the fire tears through dense bushland, which “makes it difficult to access”.