Beech 200 on Autopilot Across OZ
 Tuesday last (5/9/00) saw the bizarre flight
of an aircraft departing Perth in WA at night and then impacting the ground in north Queensland a number of hours
and a few thousand miles later
 The authorities who were unable to alert the
apparently incapacitated pilot continued to track the aircraft throughout the flight
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In Other News
 Adventurer and former chairman of
CASA Dick Smith has opened a web site to highlight the plight of
private aviation here in OZ - Dick has named the page Dick Smith
Flyer
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News Desk Observation
Archerfield is mentioned twice in the Dick Smith Flyer page - once for the Tower operation and the other on the Royal Queensland Aero Club and their legal 'fight' with Airservices
It would appear that even Dick is having trouble getting publicity for his ideas to clean up the aviation scene and to highlight the abysmal performance of it's public servants
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