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Light plane crashes in outback SA south of Coober Pedy

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South Australian police say they are responding to a light plane crash in the state’s far north.

They say they have received reports the plane has gone down in a paddock in Mulgathing, about 200 kilometres south-west of Coober Pedy.

Police have said they are yet to arrive at the scene.

Details are unclear but the alarm was raised about 9:30am.

“Emergency services are making their way to the scene of the crash and further details will be provided as they become available,” SA Police said in a statement.

Mulgathing is the site of a remote sheep station in outback South Australia, west of the Stuart Highway and near Tarcoola.

There is an airstrip at the 530,000-hectare station.

According to the website of the station’s operator Jumbuck Pastoral, a plane is used to “facilitate mustering” on the property, “on the fringe of the Great Victorian Desert”.

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