January 27 
Media reports have a twin-engine Aerostar, on a training flight from the Gold Coast to Byron Bay, overdue with a search under way to try and locate the aircraft that had on board the pilot and a 59yo senior flying instructor

"Authorities have confirmed that a flight manual found among debris off the northern New South Wales coast is from the missing plane"

Training of pilots continues to claim lives, refer the recent News Desk report back in November '03 HERE

January 27 
News round-up in OZ over the last couple of days include 2 accidents by retractable aircraft "falling over" on a nose and a wing

A privately owned single-engine Cessna was forced to make an emergency landing at Bankstown Airport after the front nose-wheel failed to extend correctly

"The plane landed successfully on two wheels and its nose"



An on January 24
At Essendon airport on Saturday afternoon a main wheel of a twin-engine Beech Duchess with only the pilot on board folded up when it was about half-way down the departure runway