AirCentre Aviation News Digest - July 2004, Week Three

Week Three
2004

Qantas Jetstar Passengers Upset by Low-Level Manoeuvre
Jet Departing Hamilton Is Turns to Avoid Incoming Qantas Jet

Prangs :: Katoomba - 3 Injured :: Archerfield Baron at Mt Hagen in PNG
July 20 3 persons have minor injuries after the Cessna they were in flipped on landing at Katoomba's Medlow Bath airfield Media reports indicate the aircraft "flipped over after being hit by a gust of wind upon landing" Media:- The Courier-Mail	From the News Desk The AF locals have advised that an Archerfield aviator has lost his aircraft at Mt Hagen in PNG about 1 week ago The aircraft concerned was a twin-engine Baron that apparently landed wheels-up after arriving at Mt Hagen with a group of fellow aviators who were part of Bill Finlen's "Flying Safari" to the PNG - there were no injuries
Click on Image to Enlarge Final Resting Place - Ex Archerfield Beechcraft Baron VH-CEW - Mt Hagen PNG

Veteran WW2 P-51D Mustang Damaged

July 19
Popular UK P-51D Warbird, "Miss Helen", was damaged in a forced landing after an airshow performance over the week-end

The owner/pilot of the historical WW11 Mustang, Robert Lamplough, was uninjured in the accident

"It wears the colours of the Eighth Air Force's 487th Fighter Section 352nd Fighter Group with which it served in 1945. This aircraft served with Israeli Defence Force and saw combat in the 1956 Sinai campaign"

Media:- UK Warbirds

Qantas Near-Miss with Qantas

July 8
A Qantas Jetstar aircraft departing Hamilton Is. Saturday had to take avoiding action to miss another Qantas aircraft on approach to the Island

"Passengers reported that a Qantas plane, and an aircraft of the airline's budget carrier Jetstar, came close to colliding in mid-air near Hamilton Island in the Whitsunday Islands"

To View a Similar Report on a Qantas near-miss in 2002 - click HERE

Media:- ABC

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