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JANUARY 2020
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WEEK FOUR
JANUARY 23 2020
Posted 07:04 23/01/20
LIGHT AIRCRAFT MISSING ON FLIGHT FROM CALOUNDRA TO TANGALOOMA
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A search co-ordinated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority is underway for a single-engine light aircraft with two persons on board that had departed Caloundra for the Tangalooma airstrip on Moreton Island 'A mayday call was made about 4.30pm before the aircraft dropped off radar'
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JANUARY 23 2020
Posted 16:10 23/01/20
FIRE-FIGHTING HEAVY AIRCRAFT CRASH CLAIMS THREE LIVES IN NSW
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Three crew members on-board a Lockheed C-130 Hercules have died after the chartered aircraft they were in impacted terrain whilst fighting a bushfire west of Cooma in the Snowy Monaro area of NSW The aircraft belonged to aerial firefighting company Coulson Aviation from British Columbia in Canada '..there appears to be no survivors as a result of the crash
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JANUARY 26 2020
Posted 20:38 26/01/20
ULTRALIGHT PILOT INJURED IN LANDING CRASH AT ARATULA IN SE-QLD
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The pilot of a South African designed BushCat aircraft sustained serious injuries after the ultralight he was flying crash-landed adjacent to the Aratula airstrip", The pilot who was in his mid-60's '..was in a serious but stable condition and airlifted to the PA Hospital'
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JANUARY 29 2020
Posted 17:13 29/01/20
PILOT AND PASSENGER SAFE AFTER CESSNA 206 INPACTS SEA OFF FRASER ISLAND
The ATSB has been notified of a reported ditching of a Cessna 206 light aircraft near Fraser Island Queensland after emergency crews were called to Happy Valley and said the pilot and passenger managed to swim ashore where paramedics were waiting for them 'A rescue helicopter picked them up and flew them to a mainland hospital' Both men were wearing white pilot uniforms and worked for Air Fraser Is.
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