Police said all 13 people aboard a New Zealand skydiving plane managed to survive after the plane got into trouble and then crashed into a lake.
Witnesses told local media on Wednesday that a number of people in parachutes leaped from the plane soon after it appeared to stall above Lake Taupo on the North Island. The plane then plunged into the lake.
Police spokeswoman Kim Perks said some of the passengers were being checked by medical staff but she didn’t believe any suffered major injuries.
She said the pilot was able to swim to shore. She said she wasn’t sure whether the pilot had gone down with the plane.
