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AirCentre News  September 2001
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Week Three
 Historical Black Day as Terrorists Strike Towers in USA
 Ansett Airlines Shuts Down in OZ

CASA Contributes to Ansett Collapse - Caboolture Air Show
Fishermen Find C206 Wreck in FNQ

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Black Day for USA
   September 11   

Three passenger jets have been hi-jacked in the USA and used to attack the Pentagon and World Trade Centre buildings in New York

The two high rise buildings in downtown Manhattan have collapsed with high loss of life after been hit by two of the hi-jacked passenger jets


A fourth hi-jacked passenger jet appears to have been destroyed whilst in flight

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Caboolture Air Show

 September 9 
Click to enlarge The bi-annual Caboolture air show was on again this week-end and featured Malcolm Longs re-built Lockheed Hudson WW2 bomber along with the RAAF Roulettes

Click to enlarge The Roulettes performance on Sunday was cut short by a reported "technical problem" that appears to have been a communication based hitch with a rouge aircraft to the west

Media Source:- AirCentre News Desk
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Ansett Shuts Down

 September 14: 
The newly appointed administrator of Ansett Australia has suspended all of the company's flight operations

Administrator Peter Hedge, of Price Waterhouse Coopers, made the announcement early this morning, saying the decision had been taken with regret and with great difficulty

The decision to suspend operations was due to the lack of the necessary cash flow

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CASA Contributes to Collapse

 September 13: 
The former chairman of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Dick Smith, predicts unless Qantas achieves a monopoly - it will be the next to fold, because of what he describes as massive over-regulation by government authorities

"So what we do here is that we send our airlines into bankruptcy because we double the size of the bureaucracy from $50 million to $100 million a year for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, ..paid for by a fuel tax"

Media Source ABC
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Fishermen Find C206 in FNQ

 September 11 
The wreckage of a light aircraft involved in a bad weather accident in the Gulf of Carpentaria two years ago has finally been located

The Cessna C206 disappeared on November 24, 1999 on a short flight to mainland OZ with five members of the Carpentaria Land Council on board

Despite an extensive search for the aircraft at the time, the fate of the aircraft and its occupants has remained a mystery 'till now

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