A search is under way for a 79-year-old Mildura pilot who failed to return yesterday after taking-off in his Cessna single-engine aircraft from the Wentworth 'air-park' aerodrome situated around 30kms north-west of Mildura in western NSW

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority have initiated a search-and-rescue operation which is now under way - "We've got search-and-rescue aircraft from Melbourne and we've got a helicopter from Adelaide"

A search helicopter spotted the wreckage of the Cessna 172 10km west of the Wentworth airfield shortly before 1730hrs yesterday

"Search crews confirmed the pilot - 79-year-old Ron Woulfe from Mildura - did not survive the crash"

A 67-year-old experienced parachuter has died after both his main and reserve 'chute's failed to deploy during a routine skydive exercise at the Ripcord Drop Zone near Gatton in south-east QLD


"It is believed the man (from nearby Plainlands) had packed his own parachute - It is unknown whether his second parachute also failed or whether he did not have time to activate it"

After trying since November 2010 to gain access to raw footage showing reality TV star Milton Jones allegedly breaching air safety regulations during the filming of the popular Ten Network program about life in the NT outback "Keeping Up with the Joneses" CASA has finally succeeded


"CASA suspects the millionaire Northern Territory cattleman's illicit antics included drinking before flying and using a helicopter to tow his waterskiing teenage son across a lake on his 526,000ha cattle station."

42-year-old UK stuntman and coffee shop owner (with his wife) - Gary Connery - has become the first person in history to deliberately exit a perfectly serviceable aircraft without deploying a parachute and live to tell the tale


"Wearing a specially-made "wing suit" he leapt from a helicopter at 2,400ft over Henley-on-Thames in southern England aiming at a "runway" of 18,000 cardboard boxes"