A search is underway for a pilot in New South Wales after a light plane crashed in a national park.

Emergency services were called to Budawang National Park, north-west of Batemans Bay, at about 4.30pm on Thursday after reports of an Emergency Location Transmitter activation.

The small recreational aircraft had left Bankstown in south-west Sydney earlier that day with one person onboard, and the plane had been returning to an airport, a NSW Police statement said.

The crash site was located from the air amid a major search, involving Australian Maritime Safety Authority, NSW Toll Ambulance Helicopter, Fire and Rescue NSW, and NSW Ambulance.

Frist responders are attempting to access the crash site on foot.

Flight tracking website flightradar24 showed the Cirus SR20 aircraft vanish off t

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