Two persons were injured - one seriously - after a gust of wind caused the 73-year-old pilot of a weight-shift controlled Airborne XT 912 microlight to loose control and crash when attempting to land at Wagga-Wagga

The pair were part of the Megafauna Flyers group who were on a cross-country jaunt from Yarrawonga in Victoria to Bathurst in NSW with a planned overnight stop at Wagga

Paraglider flying instructor Rob Lithgow along with his 66-year-old student pilot has been reported missing on a x-country training flight from Torquay’s Adventure Airsports at Flaxman’s Hill to the Bay of Islands near Warrnambool in Victoria

"..the pair were following the coastal ridge.."

"Police have been searching for the pair after they took off from Flaxman’s Hill near Nirranda 240km south-west of Melbourne at 2.30pm yesterday"

The instructor with more than 40-years experience was training a 66-year-old student to become a paraglider pilot

A police helicopter has spotted the canopy of the paraglider at 10.30am in waters off Nirranda 240km south-west of Melbourne

"Police have yet to identify the body and are continuing the search for the second person"

The preliminary report by the Indonesian National Transport Safety Committee has found that the 24-year-old Indian national co-pilot of the relatively new Lion Air Boeing 737-800 - who had been designated to carry out the landing at Denpasar airport - handed back control to the captain 66 seconds before impact due to the poor visibility on final approach - the Indonesian captain commenced a 'go-around' one second before impact

The report described a sudden change in weather with clear visibility minutes before the flight landed changing to rain and very poor visibility seconds before - all 108 passengers and crew survived the spectacular April 13 crash which split the new Boeing 737-800 in two

Aviation experts have raised concerns over the lack of suitability qualified pilots to fly the increasing number of aircraft now on order by Lion Air