April 15 
Media reports have 39 people surviving Air China's first crash in 47 years near Pusan in South Korea

The 1985 model Boeing 767-200 had 11 crew and 155 passengers on board and was en route from Beijing China

While on the second approach to the Kim Hae airport in heavy fog and rain the aircraft hit the side of a mountain

 April 16 
Police at London's Heathrow Airport are trying to identify the body of a stowaway which was discovered in the wheel bay of a freight aircraft

The man, thought to be of African origin, is believed to have frozen to death

His body was discovered by maintenance crews after the DAS Cargo flight arrived at Heathrow from Africa

 April 19 
On Tuesday 23^rd the Aero Club at Archerfield will play host to past and present "Old Boy" club members and partners at an informal luncheon

The Club is now offering to non-members(must have a long term interest in aviation) the opportunity to join the next aviation function get together in a few months



  News Desk Comment 

Ageing within the Group       
suggests it should now be  
called "The Bald Eagles"   

  Apologies to the USA for thinking of
the use of their National Emblem !

 April 16 
A 1969 USA registered MU-2 aircraft has crashed into a motor car dealership near San Juan in Puerto Rico with the loss of 2 lives

The aircraft was enroute from St Croix in the US Virgin Islands when it crashed killing the pilot and a car-dealer worker on the ground



  News Desk Comment  
The tag "Widow Maker" became attached to this type of aircraft in the '80's after a number of accidents were recorded by MU-2's overseas and here in OZ

 April 15 
Erik, grandson of Charles Lindbergh, has departed San Diego airport on the first leg of his attempt to duplicate the historic solo crossing of the Atlantic made by his late grandfather in May 1927

Reporters and supporters gathered at Lindbergh Field to see off the young Lindbergh, a Seattle based commercial pilot and artist, in the New Spirit of St. Louis, a slightly modified Lancair Columbia 300