Kit Aircraft lands in South Aust paddock
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Kit Aircraft lands in South Aust paddock
Kit plane crash-lands in paddock at Stirling North, near Port Augusta
Updated Thu Aug 1, 2013 1:29pm AEST
Photo: A kit aircraft crashed into a paddock at Stirling North (ABC News: Khama Reid)
A home-made aircraft has crashed into a paddock in outback South Australia.
It happened just before 11:30am ACST, just off Reservoir Road at Stirling North, east of Port Augusta.
Police said the pilot was forced down when the kit aircraft's engine failed.
The passenger was taken to Port Augusta Hospital with injuries and the pilot suffered cuts to his head and arm.
A Country Fire Service unit went to the scene.
Kit plane crash-lands in paddock at Stirling North, near Port Augusta - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
From the ABC News website, yesterday
Updated Thu Aug 1, 2013 1:29pm AEST
Photo: A kit aircraft crashed into a paddock at Stirling North (ABC News: Khama Reid) A home-made aircraft has crashed into a paddock in outback South Australia.
It happened just before 11:30am ACST, just off Reservoir Road at Stirling North, east of Port Augusta.
Police said the pilot was forced down when the kit aircraft's engine failed.
The passenger was taken to Port Augusta Hospital with injuries and the pilot suffered cuts to his head and arm.
A Country Fire Service unit went to the scene.
Kit plane crash-lands in paddock at Stirling North, near Port Augusta - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
From the ABC News website, yesterday
I told ya them ultralight cessna things are dangerous.
If it was 'home-made' maybe it was only half baked?
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It is a 2-stroke Rotax 582 Lightwing. I'm not sure why you would choose a Lightwing to crash in given the seriousness of the passenger injuries that the passenger sustained in this crash. Give me a Jabiru any day for crash-worthiness. Other than a CFIT years back causing two fatalities, they have a brilliant survival record.
A home-made aircraft has crashed into a paddock in outback South Australia.
Now Leigh Creek & Marree on the other hand....
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Sheep don't live on just grass in the outback, it dies off too quickly,
Salt Bush is preferred.
"William Creek? Outback? Never seen so many bleedin' cars and vans. Like Bourke St these days.
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As are most places nowadays that used to be considered "off the beaten track".
Sheep don't live on just grass in the outback, it dies off too quickly,
Salt Bush is preferred.
"William Creek? Outback? Never seen so many bleedin' cars and vans. Like Bourke St these days.
"As are most places nowadays that used to be considered "off the beaten track".
The way the Krudd Govt are about to finally put the last nail in Australia's coffin by way of lots more taxes to cover up their continued stuff ups the "outback" won't be much beyond the edge of our burbs as nobody will venture past the last electric lit street due costs!!!
One has to wonder the merits of those chute thingies that are attached to these dangerous SE machines when you see the end result of a light AC such as this one where it doesn't look a total ball of twisted metal yet the beings on board ended up really knocked around.
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One has to wonder the merits of those chute thingies that are attached to these dangerous SE machines when you see the end result of a light AC such as this one where it doesn't look a total ball of twisted metal yet the beings on board ended up really knocked around.
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Compared to your lovely paddocks of green grass and even the "tussocky" stuff in the higher country of NZ, I can believe it.
Compared to your lovely paddocks of green grass and even the "tussocky" stuff in the higher country of NZ, I can believe it.
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As usual the facts are all wrong it was a factory built gr 582 to the persons who say they are not safe your wrong the person who mentions severe injury to passenger wrong again it was bad country to land on so it becomes a planed crash the passenger had two stitches in his head and has a very sore backside I was the pilot and gave first aid to my passenger contacted RAAUZ from the scene to report it saw my passenger off in the ambulance he stayed overnight I refused the ambo got my wife to drive me home first then take me to hospital and found my back was fractured at L5 I have one week more to wait for swelling to go before surgeon can review me but I recon it will be fine, the lightwing and Jabiru are very crashworthy airframes if you fly an aircraft all the way in provides best outcomes every time, the only aircraft that scare me are one that cannot land in a paddock unfortunately the media report things very wrong or follow up and correct their reporting then all this gets exacerbated by silly remarks on forums ect good training practice and airmanship is all that is needed for safe flight me I stated 1982 first incident people die everyday in cars go figure proven fact the drive to thee airport is the most dangerouse part of any flight cheers Steve
