Guest Fred Bear Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Via News LTD: This happened last night at Bankstown, Sydney. Believed to be landing gear failure. Passengers walk away from crash landing January 18, 2007 06:39pm Article from: AAP A LIGHT plane has crash-landed at Bankstown airport, in Sydney's southwest, the four occupants escaping injury. The small plane suffered minor damage when it came to a halt on a patch of grass next to the runway, around 5.30pm (AEDT). Ambulance crews responded to the incident but all four of the plane's occupants refused treatment, an New South Wales Ambulance spokesman said. It is not known what caused the crash landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest brentc Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Ten was reporting a small "twin engined" aircraft, yet the footage that they were showing at the time clearly represented a single engine Piper Malibu or similar. Nice plane, pity. Fixable by the look of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fred Bear Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 The media don't know much about planes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulN Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 The media don't know much about planes. But they sure know how to sensationalise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokey Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 Ten was reporting a small "twin engined" aircraft, Wasn't a twin engined 5000kg Ultralight by any chance ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Longden Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 Thats the one!!! Ch 10 also mentioned that it was an aborted takeoff with a hard landing... But then again, having worked in the media for 25yrs as a news snapper a lot of "theories" get published as "facts" well before the truth is established.. Reminds me of an old editors saying... "why let the facts get in the way of a good story?..." Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon500 Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Fixable by the look of it Fixable, but definately not cheap! :ah_oh: Hot day with a bit of weight?, or a short field that didn't work? Toothpicks anyone? ;) Arthur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fred Bear Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Toothpicks anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Student Pilot Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Didn't know they were wood/composite blades on those, heard it was finger trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultralights Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 from what i heard it was a result of an airspeed indicator failure.... exactly the same failure i had years ago in an Archer..:;)2: unfortunately the pilot panicked and landed the plane straight away after seeing the ASI doing loops, but by then the gear had already been retracted, as you do when 5 ft off the deck:;)4: after i had the ASI failure, the isntructor decided i needed a little limited panel work, and we had an uneventful hrs flying, with the ASI pegged at 230kts. as far as im concerned accidents like this should not have happened... how many have been taught to fly on a limited panel? even in the arrow days, i was instructed to never retract the gear until its no longer useful, IE, the entire length of the strip is behind you! Update.... apparently the pitot cover was left on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fred Bear Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Here are some more: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galpin Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Not a pretty sight!! That sends shivers down the spine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Student Pilot Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 from what i heard it was a result of an airspeed indicator failure.... exactly the same failure i had years ago in an Archer..:;)2:unfortunately the pilot panicked and landed the plane straight away after seeing the ASI doing loops, but by then the gear had already been retracted, as you do when 5 ft off the deck:;)4: after i had the ASI failure, the isntructor decided i needed a little limited panel work, and we had an uneventful hrs flying, with the ASI pegged at 230kts. as far as im concerned accidents like this should not have happened... how many have been taught to fly on a limited panel? even in the arrow days, i was instructed to never retract the gear until its no longer useful, IE, the entire length of the strip is behind you! Update.... apparently the pitot cover was left on! Most Aircraft accidents should not have happened, but as they say sh!t happens. Apparently the pitot cover was put on AFTER the Aircraft stopped along with the control locks. The Pilot was a VERY expirenced instructor with lots of hours on high performance Aircraft including the Malibu. This same Aircraft (and pilot) has had a partial engine failure before and landed back at an airfield. Don't take everything you read on some gossip websites as truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultralights Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 actually i heard the rumour over a few drinks at the local bar! the only place for all good rumours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fred Bear Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Hear hear. A few good drinks happening at home right now! :);) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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