A Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche has landed at Bankstown without the support of the undercarriage


Initial reports have 2-persons on board who escaped uninjured from the retractable

The ATSB was aware of the incident but it was too early to say whether an investigation would be carried out


"A wheels-up landing is not an uncommon type of event"

A recently purchased and refurbished Careflight operated Beech B200 had the left main undercarriage leg fail on landing at Darwin airport after the pilot had used the emergency manual extension to lower the wheels


The aircraft had departed earlier for Port Keats but was forced to return after the pilot noticed that there was a malfunction in the aircraft's landing gear

The Super King Air was about to land at it's destination of Port Keats to pick up a patient when the pilot noticed the undercarriage position indicator "down" lights were of the incorrect colour


"The pilot has returned to Darwin and followed all the procedures for manually lowering the landing gear ...It landed on the runway and the main left-hand gear folded"

QLD police have advised that a Cessna C210 has crashed in unknown circumstances shortly after take-off at Roma Airport this morning


The ATSB image of the crash site suggests the aircraft may have had an engine failure or broke up in flight - the 6-seater ended up in a paddock only 2-kilometres north-west of the Roma airport

Owned by what appears to be a grazing company the turbocharged 210 was a recent import into OZ from the USA (2011)


Popular for it's high-speed cruising ability this 1984 model required particular care in air-speed management and control - known to shed a wing in turbulence if in the caution speed range and with abrupt application of aileron(s)

NSW police have advised that an experienced recreational aircraft pilot has died after the RV-12 he was test-flying crashed in unknown circumstances at Lismore Airport this morning


"...It's gotten about 100m into the air and it's collided with the ground killing the pilot instantly"

"NSW Fire and Rescue spokesman said the aircraft was completely destroyed by fire with three fire crews and a Rural Fire Service crew extinguishing the flames by 10.30am"


"...was a local Lismore man who was an experienced pilot associated with the Northern Rivers Aero Club"

"Pilot was 62-year-old Wayne Fisher who had more than 30-years experience in ultralights and was the owner and operator of Spectrum Aviation at Lismore"

He was test-flying the aircraft on behalf of the owner "...RV12 was approved to fly on Friday and its owner was reportedly watching by the runway..."

Has to be called outstanding progress for light aircraft development since the Wright's first fully controlled flight of 110 years ago


No doubt spurred on by numerous electric powered flying model aircraft of similar configuration AgustaWestland technicians have designed and remotely test flown an electric powered twin-engine tilt-rotor aircraft that allows the machine to land and take-off vertically and to fly conventionally

Dubbed "Project Zero" by AgustaWestland the all-electric powered tilt-rotor technology demonstrator was officially unveiled in early March 2013 - it had been under development since June 2011 and has carried out a number of remotely controlled tethered and untethered test flights


"When parked on the ground those rotors can be tilted to “windmill” in the oncoming wind charging the batteries as they do so"

Four people have been killed after the R44 helicopter they were in clipped trees when landing to inspect Panorama House for a wedding function at Bulli Tops in NSW

"Investigators believe the helicopter clipped treetops flipped over and exploded as it was coming into land in a clearing adjacent to Panorama House"