POLICE have confirmed two people were lucky to escape injury this afternoon after a light plane overshot the runway at Port Macquarie airport.
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Police said the plane lost engine power during take off. The pilot was forced off the runway with the plane coming to rest just short of Tuffins Lane sports fields where a touch football tournament was being played.
The two occupants of the Beechcraft Bonanza were not injured.
Flights at the airport have not been disrupted as a result of the incident.
