A 58-year-old amateur pilot taking-off on his first flight in his new single-seat Rans S-17 Stinger ultralight was seriously injured after the engine apparently lost power with the ultralight then clipping trees and plummeting into the ground at the Ace Aviation base airstrip at Woodstock 20 n.m south of Townsville in FNQ
"He suffered a fractured leg and pelvis, internal and lower back injuries"
The Starkie Air Field at Woodstock is mainly used by ultra-light and micro-light aircraft
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