Plane makes forced landing in field at Lakes Hayes, near Queenstown - New Zealand.

Emergency services inspect the tourism plane that made an emergency landing near Lake Hayes on private farmland this afternoon.

A sight-seeing tourism plane has made an emergency landing in a field at Lakes Hayes, near Queenstown, this afternoon.

An eyewitness said the pilot had done an excellent job of bringing the plane down on to private farmland.

It is understood no one has been injured.

It follows on from last week when a Cessna 172 crashed at the Arrowtown Golf Course killing the pilot, Ian Sloan, of Tauranga.

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