A 74-year-old pilot-builder of a homebuilt aircraft along with his female passenger escaped serious injury after the engine apparently failed shortly after take-off from the Rainbow Beach airstrip at Inskip Point on QLD's Fraser Coast

"The pilots wife was watching from near the Rainbow Beach airstrip when she saw the plane turn around to try to get back to the airstrip and then go down in dense bushland - the pair walked out of the bush with just a few cuts and bruises"

A 73-year-old pilot-builder of a Supermarine Replica Spitfire - Roger Stokes - has lost his life after the kit-built warbird replica he was flying during an air-show suffered structural failure of the starboard wing stalled whilst carrying aerobatics at Parafield Airport in South OZ

A witness at the air-show reports that the aircraft "...did a barrel roll and as it did it, it came back up to turn again and the wing gave way and it went straight down" - post crash image perusal indicates that the right wing had departed the airframe stalled prior to impact

A 21-year-old student pilot has escaped injury after the 2-seat Glob trainer he was operating crash-landed and veered off the runway at Jandakot airport in West OZ

The aircraft operated by China Southern West Australian Flying College sustained extensive damage to the undercarriage and propeller

A hot-air balloon has crashed into the side of the OZ Treasury Building in Canberra - the nations "hot-air" capital of OZ

The pilot and her 2-passengers on board the inflatable escaped unharmed - the envelope sustained some minor damage