JEM Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Reported to be on flight from Caloundra to Tangalooma. Mayday reported 4.30 pm wednesday 22/1/20. Report in ABC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEM Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 Two on board. Search underway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Oh sh... this is just too many too often. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackcountryAeropup Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Oh sh... this is just too many too often. Couldn't agree more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf jessup Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Road tolls are worse. Just sayin. Hope the outcome is good but not sounding like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgwilson Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Debris has been recovered from the water this morning off Moreton Island but it has yet to be confirmed it is from the missing aircraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdDog Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Man... Seems almost one every other week. ? Sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebird121 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I am so sorry to hear about this and send my sincere condolences to all the families and friends... I watch the planes take off from Caloundra whether they are for pleasure or training or sky diving or aerobatics. I enjoy seeing them fly over the Passage.. I'm not a pilot although I have enjoyed a few fights when I was in Scotland at Cumbernauld.. To cure me of my fear of flying in the passenger planes.. It did the trick.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan3111 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/debris-recovered-as-search-resumes-for-light-plane-missing-off-moreton-island/ar-BBZeiBL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thruster88 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 The call occurs at 00.44 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdDog Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Oh man... Thats awful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgwilson Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 A 1978 Cessna 182Q, VH -WNR. As far as I know there was no severe weather at the time. The call was calm & collected but it would appear only seconds from disaster. The debris was spread over a wide area according to reports indicating a high speed impact. A mechanical failure of some type perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan3111 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/married-couple-feared-dead-after-plane-debris-found-off-moreton-island/ar-BBZeVcJ?ocid=spartanntp I THINK 182 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdDog Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 A 1978 Cessna 182Q, VH -WNR. As far as I know there was no severe weather at the time. The call was calm & collected but it would appear only seconds from disaster. The debris was spread over a wide area according to reports indicating a high speed impact. A mechanical failure of some type perhaps. Water will take debris everywhere. Even at a slow glide it would be above 70kts or so... so anything is going to be high speed I guess. ? Sad again - just too many. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEM Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 A Cessna 182P rego VH WNR was destroyed in a crash near archerfield on 8/8/2006. (ATSB report 200604514). Was this new accident to a replacement aircraft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Registry details: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JG3 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Being so close to Brisbane International there might be a radar track?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan3111 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 I looked up the radar loop history at the rough time of 4.20 pm Tuesday and there was a big lot of storm rain cells come thought that beach area right at the some time . I would have cloud to the ground at that point . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Police divers have found the wreckage of the Cessna in 36M of water, N of Moreton Island,, but there's no sign of the bodies of the pilot and passenger. I'm guessing the aircraft broke up substantially on impact, and the bodies were flung out. I don't know what the chances are of finding the bodies, more than a week after the crash. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-29/police-divers-locate-plane-wreckage-off-moreton-island/11911588 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackcountryAeropup Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Don't quote me on this but I heard on the radio yesterday or the day before a woman's body was found washed up somewhere like Harvey bay. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Your news item was correct, but I doubt very much it would have been the woman passenger from the Cessna. I'd have to hazard a guess it was more likely a drowning at a Hervey Bay beach. https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/news/womans-body-found-at-hervey-bay-beach-in-queensland/news-story/fdd908bce769632561636303546fe617 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebird121 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 I'm so sorry to hear they found wreckage but no bodies yet.. Thanks for informing me.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flying dog Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Though a sore point, maybe it will be so much better when all aircraft have ADSB in them. Then ATC can track the craft so much quicker and easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBoy1960 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 The current direction is wrong to go to Hervey Bay, the current along the coast in summer is southerly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffon Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/news-items/2020/focus-on-data-and-components/?fbclid=IwAR02TA848dKDwUHrCbKFHJVidudwBA3HxEVB1-XBb6EYkOPuaDOvBA68pe8 More questions than answers at this stage. First amongst these being, what was he doing descending while heading out to sea? Most people climb to just under the step to cross the bay there, which gives you the option of gliding clear other than for a shortish section in the middle. One other thing, Dan111, the accident happened on Wednesday 22/01 and the relevant radar loop shows no signs of bad weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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