The missing ultralight aircraft were found within the search area of about 840 square kilometres in size and was focused around Donnington Airpark where they had departed from earlier for a flight to the Reid and Haughton rivers south of Townsville

 "..Search crews from AMSA had been called in about 9pm yesterday after reports the pilots of two ultralight aircraft had failed to return from a round trip flight from Donnington Airpark ..found within the search area ..both pilots had perished"

A 35-year-old helicopter flying instructor along with his female student from Mudgee escaped injury after the 53-year-old trainee lost control of the R-22 she was flying during a 'hovering exercise' with the rotary-wing ending up crashing onto it's side at Orange airport in western NSW

 The student "..was attempting a hovering manoeuvre ..when she lost control of the small Robinson 22 and its rotors hit the ground throwing the craft onto its side"



"..the helicopter was flying only a metre off the ground"

A 29-year-old pilot of a RV-6A escaped uninjured after the 2-seat single-engine aircraft he was flying had the engine malfunction necessitating a forced landing at Wondai about 30kms north of Kingaroy

 "..aircraft had taken off 20 minutes earlier at Archerfield Airport in Brisbane and was on its way to Charters Towers"
"after landing it ran out of runway clipping a small tree at the end of the strip"