A 30-year-old pilot has been seriously injured after the rotary-wing machine he was flying clipped power-lines and crashed at Dakenba north of Biloela in central QLD

The pilot was airlifted to Rockhampton Hospital after initially going to Biloela Hospital - QLD Police have reported on his condition which is listed as 'critical'

A 51-year-old pilot of a Cirrus SR22 was killed when the aircraft he was flying crashed into trees at Boxwood in northern Victoria just after 6pm yesterday

The SR22 struck trees on approach to a private airstrip and crashed just off the runway - indications are the pilot was trying to land after last-light

Two CASA approved doctors that certified or endorsed Barry Hempel to be fit-to-fly are involved in legal action by the partner of the passenger in the 'Warbirds Joy-Flight' that crashed and killed both Barry and his passenger off Stradbroke Island in 2008

The News Desk understands that both of the eminent doctors involved - termed Designated Medical Examiners by CASA - were taught by or were involved in how to fly light aircraft by "Hempels Flying School" at Archerfield