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 Toowoomba's King Air take-off Disaster

Qantas Spewing Aircraft Bits - Mackay Ultra-Light Fatality
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C90 King-Air Lost on Take-off

 November 27 
Toowoomba based Ansett affiliate, Eastland Air lost their Beech C90 King Air just after take-off from the inner city airport at 0830hrs

Click to enlarge Initial media reports indicate the pilot was attempting to return to the airport after an apparent engine problem and may have lost it in the turn back

Click to enlarge The 7 seat twin Pratt & Whitney powered turboprop with only 4 persons on board hit power lines and then impacted an industrial area and burst into flames - there were no survivors

Source: - The Courier Mail and Eastland Air
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Bits Fall Off Qantas Jet

 November 22 
A Qantas operated Boeing 767 twin-jet Click to enlarge with 221 passengers on board lost part of it's undercarriage door on a flight between Cairns and Darwin

Click to enlarge Authorities are now trying to locate 2 missing fibreglass panels that fell off the aircraft somewhere over a 2000 mile flight corridor across northern OZ

Source: - The Courier Mail
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Mackay Ultra-Light Fatality

 November 23 
Media reports have a two seat ultra-light Click to enlarge aircraft on a joy-flight ending in tragedy after the aircraft impacted the side of a hill and flipped over

The accident occurred near Seaforth, north of Mackay in Queensland, with the passenger on board the Jabiru (?) sustaining fatal injuries and the pilot taken to hospital


Media Source: - The Courier Mail
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Qantas in Trouble - AGAIN

 November 27 
A Qantas Boeing 767 with 204 passengers on board was forced to return to the departure airport after an apparent engine problem

Media reports indicate there is some damage sustained to the inside and outside of the port engine (bird strike?)

Click to enlarge The captain declared a may-day after a loud bang was heard from the left engine 13nm from the Melbourne departure; the twin jet B767 returned for a successful emergency landing back at the airport

Media Source: - AirWise


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