News Items of Interest - Light Aircraft Focus - Sourced & Compiled from AirCentre Resources

	2009 ARCHIVES Mouse Over Selected Month and/or Weekly Report and Click to View Details JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER January 1  2009 - Aircraft Manufacturers in OZ - Survival of the Fittest 2  Home-Built Bushby Mustang Prang in Victoria Claims Life of Pilot  Descendants of John Robertson Duigan injured in Ultralight Prang 3  High Profile OZ Aerobatics Champion Killed During Practice  Alien Avian Downs US Passenger Jet - Lands NY's Hudson River 4  MacAir Airlines Placed in Voluntary Receivership by New Owner  Royal QLD Aero Club Cessna C172 in Forced Landing at Greenbank February 1  Piper PA-31 Chieftain Emergency Landing into Darwin Harbour  Ultralight Prang Injuries Pilot at Vic's Latrobe Valley Airport 2  Air Traffic Controllers Threaten Industrial Action over Pay Dispute  CASA's New Boss to Oversee Senate Committee Recommendations 3  Archerfield Aviator - Keith Carmody - Final Departure  Gyro Magni Gyrocopter Kills Pilot in Accident at Home Hill  Fraser Island's Orchid Beach Airstrip Claims another Aircraft - Jabiru  Microlight Landing Accident on Lockyer Valley Road Injuries Female 4  NT Station Aircraft Damaged in Forced Landing in Remote Outback  Pilot Lost in PA-28 Accident in Flooded FNQ Channel Country  'Pip' Borrman - Australia's Top Aerobatic Pilot - Killed in Crash  Highlight of News Desk Report on Archerfield from Eleven Years Ago March 1  USA SUPER BOMBER EMERGENCY LANDING AT TULLAMARINE AIRPORT  GIPPSLAND ULTRALIGHT CRASH INJURIES 2 AT HISTORIC RACE MEET  FEMALE COMMERCIAL PILOT UP-ENDS SPOTTER AIRCRAFT IN WEST OZ 2  CROP-DUSTER PILOT SURVIVES BLAZING CRASH IN VICTORIA  HOME-BUILT RV-6A FLIPS ON LANDING AT SUNBURY'S PRIVATE AIRPORT 3  OZ DESIGNED GR912 LIGHTWING UPENDED ON AIRSTRIP AT COOMINYA  AIRCRAFT AUCTIONS AND AIRLINE LIQUIDATIONS UNDERWAY IN OZ 4  MD-11 WIDE BODY JET FLIPS-OVER AFTER LANDING BOUNCE IN JAPAN  NEW DATA ON SMITHY'S LADY SOUTHERN CROSS WHEREABOUTS April 1  PILOT INJURED IN HELICOPTER CRASH AT PROSERPINE IN QLD 2  REPLICA BI-PLANE DAMAGED IN TAKE-OFF ACCIDENT AT WATTS BRIDGE  BENALLA GLIDER TUG DEMOLISHED IN LANDING INCIDENT IN VIC  TRAINEE PILOT WRECKS GROB AT PARAFIELD AIRPORT IN SOUTH OZ  JABIRU J430 HOME-BUILT EMERGENCY LANDING IN TASMANIA 3  HELICOPTER PRANG IN WEST VIC CLAIMS LIFE OF YOUNG PILOT  TASSIE HOME-BUILT AIRCRAFT CRASH AT LAUNCESTION INJURES PILOT  BEACHGOERS RESCUE PIPER SUPER-CUB ON QLD's SUNSHINE COAST  USA's NTSB RECOMMENDS GROUNDING OF ZODIAC CH-601XL AIRCRAFT  PIPER CHIEFTAIN IN EMERGENCY LANDING AT OAKEY AIR BASE 4  PASSING STORM SEVERLY DAMAGES 22 LIGHT AIRCRAFT IN CANADA May 1  TWO HELICOPTER PILOTS KILLED DURING CATTLE MUSTERING IN WA  ULTRALIGHT DOWN AT NORMANTON IN FAR NORTH QLD  LAWSUIT OVER FATAL C404 TITAN ACCIDENT AT JANDAKOT IN 2003 2  ULTRALIGHT DESTROYED IN ACCIDENT NEAR CUNNAMULLA IN QLD  CESSNA C210 ENDS UP IN DAM ON ISLAND IN GULF OF CARPENTARIA 3  WILD WEATHER CREATES HAVOC ACROSS AUSTRALIA  OZ AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE - ISSUE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES 4  CESSNA C152 STUDENT PILOT LANDING MISHAP AT MOORABBIN  TRAINING AIRCRAFT COLLIDE ON THE TAXIWAY AT BANKSTOWN  PIPER NAVAJO EMERGENCY LANDING IN SNOWY MOUNTAINS  CANBERRA AIRPORT'S MISSING NOSE-WHEEL FROM C182 LOCATED June 1  MICROLIGHT FATALITY IN HUNTER VALLEY REGION OF NSW  AIR FRANCE AIRBUS A330-200 MISSING OFF BRAZILIAN COAST 2  TOURISTS INJURED IN HELICOPTER PRANG ON GOLD COAST 3  CAPTAIN OF PASSENGER JET DIES OVER ATLANTIC OCEAN  CHEROKEE-SIX FORCED LANDING NEAR BROOME IN WEST OZ  FOG CREATES CHAOS FOR PASSENGERS ON JETSTAR FLIGHT 4  MISSING ROBBO CHOPPER LOCATED IN WEST OZ  CHOPPER PILOT BATED BY CROC IN THE NT - ROBBO SNARED  CALOUNDRA'S AIR MUSEUM OPEN COCKPIT DAY JULY 4-5th 2009 July 1  HELICOPTER PILOT LOST IN TRAINING ACCIDENT ON GOLD COAST  HELICOPTER ON FISHING TRIP IN WEST OZ's KIMBERLY FORCE LANDS 2  'GREY NOMAD' DISRUPTS C337 TWIN IN EMERGENCY LANDING IN NSW  INSTRUCTOR & STUDENT SURVIVE PA-30 TWIN PRANG IN KIWI-LAND 3  CONTROL FAILURE FORCES EMERGENCY LANDING FOR ULTRALIGHT 4  FIVE SURVIVE CESSNA C-206 EMERGENCY LANDING IN WA  WORLD'S GREATEST AIR-SHOW STARTS TO-DAY August 1  MICROLIGHT ACCIDENT CLAIMS LIFE OF PILOT IN WESTERN VICTORIA  INCORRECT HAND START AT COOBER PEDY CLAIMS LIGHT AIRCRAFT  PRANGS INJURE THREE IN NSW - 2 IN SAILPLANE - 1 IN ULTRALIGHT 2  ULTRALIGHT HELICOPTER ACCIDENT CLAIMS LIFE OF OWNER-BUILDER  EMERGENCY BEACON ALERTS AUTHORITIES TO PRANG IN THE NT  MICROLIGHT PILOT INJURED WHILST ATTENDING WEST OZ FLY-IN  KIWI PILOT OF CHOPPER IN HUDSON RIVER MID-AIR WITH PA-32 3  TOURIST DIES IN ULTRALIGHT ACCIDENT NEAR PINE CREEK IN THE NT  PILOT DIES IN CESSNA ACCIDENT NEAR WINTON IN OUTBACK QLD 4  PILOT SAFE IN CRASH LANDING AT REMOTE COMMUNITY IN THE NT  FEMALE AEROBATIC PILOT KILLED DURING AIR-SHOW IN ENGLAND September 1  PILOT INJURED IN EMERGENCY LANDING SOUTH WEST OF SYDNEY 2  GERMAN PASSENGER JET IN WHEELS-UP LANDING AT STUTTGART  RAAF BASE PLAYS HOST TO CIVIL SECTOR AFTER DARWIN CLOSURE 3  AUTHENTIC WW11 HAWKER HURRICANE MK-11A WARBIRD AUCTION  NEW ZEALAND AVIATION INDUSTRY CELEBRATE 1000TH AIRCRAFT 4  PILOT ARRESTED FOR HARASSMENT BY LIGHT AIRCRAFT  KINGAROY AIRPORT TO CLOSE FOR MODEL PLANE COMPETITION October 1  CESSNA WITH 3 POB INVERTS ON LANDING AT APOLLO BAY IN VIC  ACCIDENTS CLAIM TWO LIVES IN WA - CROPDUSTER & ULTRALIGHT 2  PRIVATE FLYING FATAL ACCIDENT STATISTICS HUGE IMPROVEMENT 3  BANKSTOWN RUNWAY CLOSED FOR REMOVAL OF CRASHED C152  FNQ ULTRALIGHT 'COWBOY' PILOT FINED FOR UNLICENCED FLYING  ULTRALIGHT PILOT FOUND DECEASED IN WRECKAGE NEAR HAY 4  PRIVATE LIGHT AIRCRAFT FLYING IN CHINA SET TO BOOM  PRIVATE LIGHT AIRCRAFT FLYING IN OZ HAS CRASHED November 1  PILOT ARRESTED IN WEST OZ DRUG BUST AT JANDAKOT AIRPORT  STUDENT PILOT LOOSES CONTROL IN X-LANDING AT COOLANGATTA  EMERGENCY LANDING FOR TRAINING SCHOOL LIGHT AIRCRAFT  ARCHERFIELD'S DC4 PREPARING TO DEPART THE AIRFIELD 2  WEATHER COSTLY FOR QANTAS JET 60 SEC LATE FOR LANDING  AIRLINE PILOT ARRESTED IN LONDON ON SUSPICTION OF DRINKING 3  MILLION DOLLAR WESTWIND JET DITCHED INTO PACIFIC OCEAN  AGRICULTURAL AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT CLAIMS LIFE OF KIWI PILOT  RARE ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTNING SUPERSONIC FIGHTER LOST 4  SUCCESSFUL EMERGENCY LANDING FOR 'DOWNS PILOT OF C182  HOMEBUILT LANCAIR PRANG INJURES PILOT DEPARTING BATHUST December 1  SEARCH UNDERWAY FOR MISSING WEST OZ ULTRALIGHT  SEARCH UNDERWAY FOR MISSING VICTORIAN ULTRALIGHT  TASSIE MEDIA JOURNALIST FORCE-LANDS TB-10 LIGHT AIRCRAFT  RESTORED RUSSIAN YAK-18T FORCE LANDS NEAR CROWS NEST  RARE 2-SEAT SPITFIRE DAMAGED ON LANDING IN KIWI LAND  POWERLINES SNARE ULTRALIGHT IN NSW CLAIMING LIFE OF PILOT 2  WISE PILOT'S PRECAUTIONARY LANDING IN VICTORIA  ONE LIFE LOST IN ONE OF THREE HELICOPTER ACCIDENTS IN NSW 3  ARCHERFIELD'S DC4 DEPARTS THE AIRFIELD  SURVEY AIRCRAFT PRANG ON THE NULLARBOR IN WEST OZ  ILLEGAL DRUG TRADE TAKE TO USING LARGE HEAVY JETS  HELICOPTER PRANG IN VICTORIA CLAIMS PILOT'S PRIDE 4  CORBY STARLET SAFE EMERGENCY LANDING NEAR BALLARAT IN VIC  HEAVY PASSENGER JETS ON COLLISION COURSE IN THE NT  WHITSUNDAY ISLANDS CLAIM ANOTHER LIGHT AIRCRAFT   RETURN  © AirCentre 1996 - 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