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	2012 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 'MAN-OF-STEEL' CROP DUSTER PILOT SURVIVES FIERY CRASH NEAR FORBES QLD's FRASER ISLAND CLAIMS ANOTHER LIGHT AIRCRAFT - C172 HELICOPTER IMPACTS GROUND AFTER POWER FAILURE ON TAKE-OFF FEMALE PILOT INJURED AFTER SAILPLANE CRASH AT BENALLA ULTRALIGHT PILOT INJURED PERFORMING AEROBATICS OVER LAKE HUME 2 WIND GUST FLIPS GA-8 AIRVAN INVERTED AT VICTORIAN DROP-ZONE MICROLIGHT PILOT UNABLE TO 'MOTHER' CRANES DUE REGULATIONS BALLOON CRASH IN KIWI-LAND CLAIMS 11 LIVES 3 HOME-BUILT ULTRALIGHT ACCIDENT INJURES THREE IN WHITSUNDAYS STUDENT PILOT INJURED IN GLIDER TRAINING FLIGHT AT BENALLA GYROCOPTER CRASH AT MANGALORE IN VICTORIA CLAIMS 2-LIVES PILOT SURVIVES HOME-BUILT ULTRALIGHT CRASH AT WHYALLA AUCTION AT KINGAROY OF WHITNEY BOOMERANG MANUFACTURING PLANT 4 SOUTH OZ AEROBATIC PILOT KILLED IN PITTS SPECIAL AT MURRY BRIDGE TWO ESCAPE SERIOUS INJURY AFTER CHIPMUNK ENGINE FAILURE IN NSW TIGER MOTH CRASH AT MARYBOROUGH IN VICTORIA CLAIMS 2-LIVES LIFT COMPONENT OF FLIGHT THEORY DEBUNKED AS INACCURATE February 1 SKYDIVE CESSNA DAMAGED IN FORCED LANDING IN THE WHITSUNDAYS FATAL R44 HELICOPTER CRASH NEAR NOWRA CLAIMS TWO LIVES AIRCRAFT OWNER JAILED OVER TRANSPORT OF ILLICIT DRUGS 2 ARCHERFIELD'S CIRRUS SALES OPERATOR IN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES 3 SEAREY AMPHIBIAN CRASH LANDS AT PORT MACQUARIE IN NSW AIR AUSTRALIA GOES BUST - STRANDS 4000 PASSENGERS OVERSEAS EMERGENCY LANDING AT BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL CLOSES MAIN RUNWAY 4 PILOT 'THROWS-IN-TOWEL' IN FIGHT WITH AUTHORITIES OVER LICENCE March 1 AUCTIONS CONTINUE TO DOMINATE AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AT ARCHERFIELD "IT'S ALL OVER RED-ROVER" - DESPATCH FROM THE HOME FRONT USA SERVER STATS FOR FEBRUARY AND TODAY INDICATE HIGH INTEREST 2 MILITARY ROTARY-WING SNARES POWER-LINE NEAR OAKEY IN QLD PILOT SAFE AFTER POWER-LINE SNARES ROTARY-WING NEAR TAMWORTH 3 SEARCH FOR BUNDABERG ULTRALIGHT AIRCRAFT AFTER SARTIME EXPIRES MISSING ULTRALIGHT LOCATED IN NORTH BUNDABERG CANE FIELD CONFLICT ERUPTS OVER SITING OF NEW AIRPORT IN THE WHITSUNDAYS 4 ULTRALIGHT PILOT INJURED IN MAIDEN FLIGHT AT WOODSTOCK IN FNQ EUROPA HOME-BUILT CRASH AT CABOOLTURE CLAIMS LIFE OF PILOT PARACHUTIST CRITICALLY INJURED ON MAIDEN JUMP AT GATTON April 1 TWO KILLED IN GLIDER ACCIDENT AT ARARAT IN MID-WEST VICTORIA 2 ULTRALIGHT JABIRU IN FORCED LANDING AFTER ENGINE FAILURE IN VIC APPARENT LOSS OF CONTROL IN 3 SPIN-TYPE ACCIDENTS CLAIM 4-LIVES CROPDUSTER PILOT KILLED DURING ROUTINE OPS NEAR MOREE IN NSW MICROLIGHT CRASH CLAIMS TWO LIVES IN SOUTHERN NSW PARACHUTIST INJURED ON MAIDEN 'SOLO' JUMP AT RIPCORD GATTON 3 PILOT KILLED IN HOME-BUILT HELICOPTER CRASH NEAR EROMANGA PILOT INJURED IN CESSNA 210 WHEELS-UP LANDING IN THE NT ULTRALIGHT PILOT INJURED IN LOSS-OF-CONTROL ACCIDENT IN VICTORIA 4 CATTLE MUSTERING CESSNA ACCIDENT CLAIMS LIFE OF BOURKE PILOT ARCHERFIELD TRAINED AIR CHARTER PILOT IN NEW BUSINESS VENTURE MEDIA INTEREST IN GRUMMAN ALBATROSS'S ARRIVAL ON SYDNEY HARBOUR May 1 2 3 4 June 1 2 3 4 July 1 2 3 4 August 1 2 3 4 September 1 2 3 4 October 1 2 3 4 November 1 2 3 4 December 1 2 3 4   RETURN  © AirCentre 1996 -  HOME