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 APRIL 13  2015


 Posted 11:49 AM 13/04/2015 
MATURE AGE ULTRALIGHT PILOT INJURED IN LANDING CRASH AT TOORADIN IN VIC

The pilot of an ultralight registered Morgan AW Cheetah - reported to be in his 70's - sustained back injuries after he apparently lost control during the landing sequence in gusty conditions at the Tooradin airport

The aircraft "was severely damaged in the collision and small pieces of debris were scattered around the crash site - His only passenger, a teenage boy, was taken to the Dandenong hospital with minor injuries"

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 APRIL 12  2015


 Posted 12:04 PM 12/04/2015 
FATAL MICROLIGHT AIRCRAFT CRASH AT RIVER GLEN DUNDEE IN NSW

Two persons on board a microlight aircraft on a farm-stay property near Glen Innes were fatally injured after their weight-shift controlled machine impacted terrain

The accident occurred at the River Glen B&B Farmstay "...were friends of the owners of the Nine Mile Road property ...which has two private airstrips for microlight aircraft"

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 APRIL 12  2015


 Posted 10:56 AM 12/04/2015 
FATAL MICROLIGHT CRASH IN SOUTH OZ
HELICOPTER CRASH IN FNQ

The 70-year-old pilot of an microlight - Geoff Arthur - has died after the weight-shift controlled trike he was flying struck power-lines at Washpool in South OZ "...The pilot was the only person on board"

The 50-year-old pilot of an unidentified helicopter sustained serious injuries after his rotary-wing crashed on landing in FNQ
"...the incident (was) at the rural location called Pinnarendi station"

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 APRIL 11  2015


 Posted 1:12 PM 11/04/2015 
LIGHT AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY LANDING AT MOORABBIN CLAIMS TWO AIRCRAFT

Two light aircraft have collided on the ground at Melbourne's secondary airport Moorabbin "...collided as one made an emergency landing ..second plane was taxiing on the runway"

"All five people at the scene were treated for shock"
"..three, including a man and a woman aged in their twenties, were taken to hospital with minor injuries"

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 APRIL 10  2015


 Posted 12:10 PM 10/04/2015 
LAKE EYRE SEAREY ULTRALIGHT RECOVERY ATTEMPT FAILS

A "comedy of misfortunes" has plagued the attempted recovery by the owner of the Searey amphibian that he had landed in Lake Eyre 3-weeks ago "...The top of the water had a beautiful crystallised surface, which was about 10 millimetres thick. Underneath that was this clay; wet, sticky mud, which trapped the plane"

During the attempted recovery the ultralight was airlifted from the original crash site and a short time later it became unstable and the helicopter pilot had no choice but to jettison the load - "the aircraft ...that got bogged in Lake Eyre in South Australia will remain as an outback relic after a rescue attempt went spectacularly wrong"

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