Savannah accident in Gladstone

[Kyle Communications]

Anyone know about this it was in the Courier Mail this afternoon

 

N ultra-light plane has flipped in a gust of wind during take-off and crashed near Gladstone, injuring the pilot.

 

Fire and ambulance crews responded to the crash at Wurdong Heights, south of Gladstone, about 3pm today.

 

A 49-year-old man, believed to be the only person on board, was taken to Gladstone Hospital in a stable condition.

 

Police said the man was attempting to take-off in his Savannah model aircraft - an ultra-light recreational plane - when a gust of wind "interupted the plan".

 

The plane then cartwheeled 200m down a hill before coming to rest in a paddock.

 

A Department of Community Safety spokeswoman said the man had soft tissue injuries and lacerations which were non-life-threatening.

 

 

[Guest gazzawh]

Pranged a Savannah

 

Hi Mark, i heard via the grape vine the gentleman involved in this one was the same person who had the close encounter with a car in another Savvy near Kilcoy.

 

 

[Modest Pilot]

The aircraft had completed a flight with a friend as pax. The pilot decide to go for a further flight by himself. The aircraft appeared to raise the nose wheel at a lower than normal take off speed veer to the left and become airborne, the left wheel hit a pile of dirt, the left wing tip then struck the ground and the aircraft cartwheeled down the slope away from the airstrip. The witness tried and failed to extract the unconscious pilot from the wreckage, went for help and on return found the pilot had crawled clear. Fuel was escaping from the aircraft. The pilot was taken to hospital banged up a bit but looks like being O K.

 

 

[motzartmerv]

Glad he's ok. The old asymmetric blade effect..;)

 

 

[Yenn]

There is more on this in the Savvy part of the forums.