A 62-year-old South OZ pilot - Professor Ross Vining - has lost his life after the home-built SeaRey Amphibian he was flying crashed in unknown circumstances near the mouth of the Cotterell River on Cape York Peninsula

The pilot had departed Bamaga airport earlier as part of a group of 5-aircraft for a flight to Weipa - it appears that the Emergency Locator Transmitter activated on impact "...the radio beacon wasn't moving on the Cotterell River"

Two recent "deep-stall" accidents and another 12-months ago suggest there is something amiss with the pilot training curriculum that is overseen by the government regulator CASA - all should have been survivable if the correct flying technique was used - "Stick Forward - Maintain Airspeed"

Listed below are the reports with links (click on line) - of note is that all three fatal accidents involving 5-persons occurred here in south-east QLD and one just over the border in NSW for reasons yet to be determined ...but all appear to the News Desk to involve a loss of control from too-low an airspeed