Sydney accountant 51 year-old Tom Moon lost his life when performing aerobatics in his two-seat single-engine Extra 300 after it crashed onto the runway at Temora in southern New South Wales and caught fire

Tom was president of the OZ National Aerobatic Club for a number of years and represented Australia at national and world championship levels

	Tom was also the treasurer of the Temora Aviation Museum which was founded in 1999 by David Lowy as a tribute to the men and women who fought in aircraft during wartime
He started flying in 1986 and had clocked up more than 1,400 flying hours - 1,100 of them spent carrying out aerobatics

A US Airbus A320 passenger jet with 155 persons on board made a successful ditching into the Hudson River after both engines failed shortly after take-off from New York's La Guardia Airport on January 15
The Airbus's two only engines ingested a few Canadian Geese that were flying nearby in formation on their annual migration and forced US Airways Flight 1549 to 'land' in the Hudson
All 150 passengers and 5 crew were evacuated from the freezing water by ferry boats and emergency services water-borne vehicles

	Passengers were asked to stand on the wing during evacuation and await rescue as the fuselage slowly sank into the freezing waters
The 57 year-old pilot - Chesley Sullenberger - obtained his pilot's license at age 14 - trained in gliders and was an Air Force pilot for a number of years before taking up airline flying
	The luckless cooked geese just happened to be at the wrong-place at the wrong-time - with the aircraft it was the right-pilot for the right-time