A female tourist aged in her 20's has died and three others on board a Cessna 172M seriously injured after the 'tourist activities' Cessna carried out an emergency landing onto Middle Island north of 1770 township on QLD's central coast for reasons unknown

"...two planes, both involved with tourist activities, were flying together when the one which was trailing saw the first go down on Middle Island off Agnes Waters ...of the four people in the crashed plane, one is in a critical condition"

The pilot and passenger of a Foxbat A32 on an aerial photography flight were forced to carry out and emergency landing at Moorabbin airport after the nose-wheel was damaged during an earlier landing attempt

"The foam blanket ensured that it cut down sparks that might happen if the metal from the plane hits the runway" A senior instructor at Soar Aviation Flight Training ..said he was “not able to give any comment”