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 Vintage Tiger Moth Flight-Review Disaster
 Russian Passenger Prop-jet Lost

Heavy in Engine-out Emergency - Cessna C210 Down in WA
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Tiger Moth Lost on Coast

 November 21 
Click to enlarge A flight-review in a vintage DH-82A Tiger Moth, based on QLD's Gold Coast, has left two persons in hospital and an almost destroyed aircraft after an incorrect take off technique forced a landing

Click to enlarge The aircraft impacted the ground in a near vertical attitude that resulted in some injuries to both the testing officer and pilot

Media source:- TV Ch 9 News
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Heavy in Engine-out Emergency

 November 18 
A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200 flight with 298 people on board that had departed Brisbane for Singapore late Sunday ended up making an emergency landing at Darwin after diverting en-route

Click to enlarge The captain shut down one of the two Rolls Royce Trent engines after it began to vibrate well into the flight and headed for Darwin where he carried out a successful "feathered" one engine landing

Media source:- ABC  Previous SAL news HERE
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Cessna C210 Down in WA

 November 15 
Click to enlarge A Goldfields Air Services Cessna 210 Centurion with four persons on board crashed in bushland a few seconds after the pilot made an emergency may-day call to authorities


The pilot is confirmed as having died at the accident site and 3 mine workers taken to hospital


The aircraft went down 8 kilometres east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder 1430hrs Wednesday

Media sources:- West OZ and News.com.au
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Russian Passenger Prop-jet Lost

 November 20 
Media reports have an Ilyushin IL-18 aircraft carrying 24 persons on board as having crashed in the northern Russian region of Yaroslav about 24 km from Kalyazin

Click to enlarge The vintage 1950's prop-jet aircraft is apparently still widely used in Russia and the former Soviet Union countries for local and regional passenger carrying operations

There has been no reports of any survivors

Media sources:- ABC


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