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 JANUARY 19  2013


 Posted 7:56 PM 19/01/2013 
 HUSBAND AND WIFE SURVIVE ULTRALIGHT CRASH AT JACOBS WELL IN QLD 

Emergency services were called to a property on Stapylton Jacobs Well Rd at Jacobs Well after an as yet unidentified ultralight aircraft had crashed and flipped inverted injuring the two persons on board


The aircraft apparently suffered an engine failure forcing the 62-year-old pilot to make an emergency landing

"The aircraft lost a wheel upon landing flipping the small plane onto its roof"


"We heard a big bang ..the plane had flipped and was turned upside down ..the husband was walking around the plane ..both were transported to the Princess Alexandra hospital in a stable condition with non-life threatening injuries"

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 JANUARY 19  2013


 Posted 1:41 PM 19/01/2013 
 PILOT AND CAMERAMAN SURVIVE NEWS HELICOPTER CRASH NEAR PERTH 

Media reports have a Channel 10 TV-news helicopter crashing in Baskerville in Perth's Swan Valley during filming of a truck crash

"A cameraman and the helicopter pilot survived and are being taken to hospital ..their injuries were not life threatening"

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 JANUARY 15  2013


 Posted 5:58 AM 15/01/2013 
 HELICOPTER PILOT SERIOUSLY INJURED IN CRASH NEAR AUGATHELLA 

Media reports have a 25-year-old helicopter pilot seriously injured with burns to his body and face after the helicopter he was operating crashed into a dam

"The pilot was travelling over the Yo Yo Park station near Allandale Warrah Road when he crashed into a dam ...he was found sitting upright and conscious"

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