The pilot of a medical transport plane has escaped with minor injuries after an emergency landing in the southeast Queensland rail corridor.
Emergency services were called to Hillcrest, in Brisbane's south, about 6.10am on Friday after reports an aircraft had made the forced landing.
The plane had been travelling from Sydney before the pilot reported a mechanical fault while on approach to the Archerfield airport, where the flight was scheduled to land.
The pilot, a Brisbane woman aged in her 30s, was forced to make an emergency landing along the rail corridor.
She was taken to Logan Hospital with minor injuries. No passengers were on board at the time of the incident.
Paramedics were on scene minutes after the crash, Queensland Ambulance Service's operations supervisor James Van den Bogert told reporters.
The pilot was able to climb free of the plane's cabin.
"She was found to have some minor injuries, just some bruising down to her lower limbs, and a couple of lacerations to her face," he said at the scene.
"I think it's really great that she was able to get out and that she was well enough to do so and didn't have significant injuries."
The crumpled wreckage shows significant damage to the cockpit of the plane.
"When you hear 'plane crash' ... that sounds pretty awful," he said.
"But we quickly found that the patient was OK, walking, talking, conscious ... a really good outcome."
It's the third aircraft incident reported in Queensland this week after a young couple died near Proserpine when their plane crashed in bad weather, and another man was killed in helicopter crash in central Queensland.
