rankamateur Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/missing-pilot-des-porter-survived-crash-in-1954/story-e6frg6nf-1226486114224 Edit : Now confirmed Des was half of one of the three couples on board.
Guest Andys@coffs Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 So ppq came from essendon, yet aerorescue on their website says they have aircraft, among others, at BNE. You'd have to wonder why MLB based aircraft was dispatched. Also if refuel needed now doesn't say much about time on station......
eightyknots Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 I hope all will end well. We better pray they are OK.
winsor68 Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 This was a beautiful aircraft... I saw it flying over the Isa in the North West Corner of the State about 11 years ago... she was no hanger queen. Lets hope she is in a field somewhere between ridges and no reception with flooding stopping them from leaving the machine to raise the alarm.. 1
planedriver Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 That is so sad to hear. A wonderful old aircraft with dedicated enthusisiasts on board. So hope the outcome is better than the initial news.
GAFA Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 VUG was in a standard holding patern for BNE, which just happens to be near the search area. Aerorescue currently have the Dornier 328 PPG based at BNE. I believe the crew are required to be at the airport during daylight hours, so they can be airborne ASAP, so perhaps that aircraft went TECH.
Guest Andys@coffs Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 Wikipedia says a dornier 328 has a range of 1000nm. If that is true of the AMSA aircraft then YMEN to search area is around 760nm.......
Guest jabiru Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 Sorry GAFA, But it just looked like VH- VUG was in the Looking (mode) Des and Crew were at many AAAA fly-In's and the just nice's of people you could find, God look over them.
eightyknots Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 Pprune report plane found 45minutes ago Any more information ...anyone??
rankamateur Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 Any more information ...anyone?? I think that pprune report was just an assumption based on the search pattern continuing to pass over the point at it's centre, in the graphic that accompanied the comment.
Blueadventures Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 Looks like the Dornier is going home now...I am probably a bit dumb in this area but I would have thought the track of a search would be more systematic like zig zag etc then what the green is showing[ATTACH]19301[/ATTACH] Hi Ian In two of the green circles, where they flaten out is parallel to the topo ridge lines. They are probably also trying to home in on the beacon freq. Depending on the condition and angle of the beacon's antenna the signal could be bouncing around a bit and that could be why all the track lines are not merging on the one location all the time. Any how the SAR mission co-ord and crew are doing the job well. Hoping for good news. Cheers Mike
Thirsty Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 Yeah the amsa web site doesn't mention anything about finding the aircraft. Hopefully they'll find them and all will be well.
kaz3g Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 Let's hope history repeats itself http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/49887911?searchTerm=de%20havilland%20crash&searchLimits=fromyyyy=1954|||toyyyy=1954|||l-title=30 kaz
Bandit12 Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 Fingers crossed but it doesn't sound great.....I drove from Murgon through to Brissy airport and back this afternoon, and the weather was pretty ordinary. Heard about the search on the radio a couple of times.
Cosmick Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 Sadly in this case, no news is not good news. Thoughts and prayers for the pilot and passengers.
Guest Andys@coffs Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 PPQ back in the air searching now....... Perhaps others can advise why now and not hrs ago.....duty crew restrictions?
Admin Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 He seems to be going over the same ground but not small enough to pin point something...this is a learning curve for me and no doubt could always come in handy knowing that this is what they do
Admin Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 No, looks like he has moved to circling around Green Park, 6km East of Canondale
Chrisso Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 Surely of the seven people on board, one must have a mobile phone !! Even if they have landed successfully and are in a bad reception area, one must only walk about 100 metres or so to get a good signal. Here's hoping that all is well.
cscotthendry Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 The second circling PPQ was doing looked like he was over the Maleny VOR My guess is that they found the aircraft a bit west of Monsildale where they circled about 5 or 6 times.
Admin Posted October 1, 2012 Posted October 1, 2012 This is the current view...when this is over I hope someone can explain the logic of what was going on throughout this...BrettR44 (user here) use to be a crew member on the Dornier so perhaps he will come on and explain it all for us...information like this I think would be a great help should a situation ever arose for any of us.
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