A 42-year-old man and his 13-year-old daughter were taken to the Moree Hospital with a range of critical injuries after the 6-seat Piper Saratoga they were in impacted the ground near the Moree airport in central NSW - the four other persons on board the PA-32R-301T including the pilot did not survive




Initial reports indicate the privately owned turbo-charged Piper was on a night flight from Brewarrina when it clipped a tree and crashed during final approach to the airport

A Northern Territory cattle station owner has been targeted by OZ Authorities over what they perceived to be a dangerous act after he used a Robbo helicopter to tow his 15-year-old son down a billabong on a water-ski




The 46-year-old cattle mustering pilot - Milton Jones - owner of the 700sq km Coolibah station on the Victoria River and Albatross helicopter company along with the Top Springs Hotel 291 kms south of Katherine - had to obtain a court order to stop CASA from getting hold of the raw footage of the event after the Authority took out a search warrant

A Cessna 172 with a 22-year-old pilot at the controls was attempting to land on East Wallabi Island in the Abrolhos Islands group in West OZ when the C172 ran out of runway and ended up in the ocean




It appears the Cessna was a private hire from Batavia Coast Air Charter in Geraldton - both the pilot and passenger were able to escape from the partly submerged wreck unharmed

A Qantas flight en-route from the Philippines to Sydney had an electrical fire in the cockpit forcing the Airbus A330 with 147 passengers on board to land at Cairns International




A windscreen heater electrical fault started a fire in the cockpit forcing the flight crew to use a fire extinguisher - the aircraft landed safely in Cairns after the flames were extinguished

The light aircraft industry has - as one of it's necessary operational requirements - the dreaded "ramp-check" where the weight and balance and paperwork associated with the flight including pilot licences are perused by the OZ Government Authority CASA




Whilst it's time consuming for the pilot and passengers having to wait for the inspection to be carried out - and this includes ultralights - apparently the system of 'ramp-checking' heavies just does not exist