Posted:
Thu Dec 18, 2008 1:33 pmby stubbie
Hi all,
There has been mid air collision in Sydney, seems that 2 light aircraft had a midair. 1 landed with injurys and 1 crashed into house killing 2 passengers.
Posted:
Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:26 pmby pacblue
Two people were killed when their light plane crashed into the backyard of a house at Casula, south-west of Sydney, this morning.
The New South Wales Fire Brigade says the crash happened after a mid-air collision with another plane at around 11:30am AEDT.
The plane crashed into the backyard of a house on Flame Tree Avenue, Casula. No-one was inside the house and a pergola sustained most of the damage.
Rob Walker from Air Services Australia says it appears that the collision happened in uncontrolled airspace.
"There's been an incident between two light aircraft, approximately 10 kilometres south-west of Bankstown airport," he said.
"One aircraft has managed to return to Bankstown airport to land safely, unfortunately the other aircraft appears to have crashed and the two people on board are deceased."
Police say the two people on board the plane that landed at Bankstown were an instructor and another person. It is not known whether the second person was a trainee.
The pair were unhurt in the accident and their plane suffered minimal damage.
The incident will be referred to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau for investigation.
Posted:
Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:02 pmby ardypilot
Also saw this on the news at A.net yesterday from the Bermuda Triangle:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The pilot of a plane that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle with 11 passengers aboard had only a U.S. student pilot license and should have never been allowed to fly, Dominican authorities said Wednesday.
Adriano Jimenez had been stripped of his Dominican license in 2006 because he was caught flying multiengine planes when he was only authorized to fly helicopters, said Pedro Dominguez, president of the Dominican Pilots Association. Two weeks ago, he had a minor accident while landing a small plane at a Dominican airport.
"An in-depth investigation was never opened to prevent what today we are lamenting," Dominguez said.
Jimenez loaded 11 passengers onto a twin-engine plane in Santiago, Dominican Republic, on Monday and filed a flight plan for a landing in Mayaguana Island in the Bahamas, but he never arrived, according to the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute.
Jimenez sent an emergency signal about 35 minutes after takeoff and then disappeared from the radar. He was flying in low visibility over rough seas, according to U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Barry Bena.
U.S. Coast Guard crews suspended their search Wednesday night after scouring about 5,300 sq. miles (13,727 sq. kilometers) without turning up any sign of the plane or its passengers, said Guard spokesman Lt. Matt Moorlag in Miami.
The plane went missing in the Bermuda Triangle, a zone of the Atlantic Ocean noted for a supposedly high number of unexplained losses of small boats and aircraft.
The U.S. Coast Guard says the mysteries can usually be attributed to storms that flare up quickly and to swift, Gulf Stream currents that wash away evidence of wreckage.
"Overall, the U.S. Coast Guard is not impressed with supernatural explanations of disasters at sea," Moorlag said.
The missing aircraft's owner, Luis Perez of Puerto Rico, said he hired a pilot to fly the BN2A MK III Trislander to the Dominican Republic so that Jimenez, a potential buyer, could inspect it.
The pilot who was supposed to fly the plane with Jimenez at his side refused to do so when Jimenez arrived at the airport with 11 passengers, according to Luis Irizarry, an attorney for Perez' company. He said Jimenez then took the plane himself without authorization.
Jimenez, 43, received a U.S. student pilot license in March, according to U.S. Federal Aviation Administration records.Always sad to hear stories like this, but even more so this close to Xmas
Posted:
Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:14 amby pois0n
WTH was he in that takes 11 pax?!
