Accident near Bellfield North West Queensland

[Rotorwork]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-15/cessna-crashes-in-north-west-queensland/4959066

 

A man in his 50s has been critically injured in a light plane crash in remote north-west Queensland.

 

The Cessna came down on Bellfield Station, 150 kilometres north of Richmond, about 3:30pm today.

 

A man in his late 20s has also been hurt.

 

A person working at the station alerted emergency services.

 

 

[Tex]

2 x fatalities

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

ABC reporting two fatalities...anybody know what type Cessna ?...........................Maj...

 

 

[Guest Yampy]

Ch 7 reporting 2X fatalities also .

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

A Cessna 182, and a possible engine failure,.....heavily wooded very remote country, with a council worker the only eyewitness apparently......condolences to all.............

 

 

[Rotorwork]

http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2013/aair/ao-2013-151.aspx

 

Collision with terrain involving Cessna 206, VH-WAV, Bellfield Station (ALA), 152 km SE Croyden Qld. on 15 September 13

 

Not Good

 

R W

 

 

[Jaba-who]

Mmm latest scuttlebutt from the aviation fraternity in Croydon where aircraft was based.

 

Pilot landed on a good road (not entirely legal but safe enough) out west to deliver machinery parts to workers. Taxied off road then along a track to where the machinery was. Then instead of taxying back to safe wide road pilot fired up and attempted to take off from the bush track. On climb struck a tree and crashed killing self and son ( son was ok enough to help workers dig father out of crash but not long after deteriorated and died)

 

No engine problem heard by workers. Just struck tree and crashed.

 

And people wonder why the authorities try to micromanage and restrict us.

 

 

[Head in the clouds]

And people wonder why the authorities try to micromanage and restrict us.

It's a really sad outcome and my condolences to the family and I don't think we should assume there was anything wrong or illegal with the operation except a misjudgement of the suitability of the 'track ALA' for the take-off, and we all make misjudgements from time to time, gladly we usually get away with it - just.

 

These types of off-airport operations happen many times daily in the bush and by all kinds of operators like RFDS, station boremen, fencers, machinery operators, shooters, stockmen, vets, mineral prospectors, and even some jackaroos and jillaroos delivering 'smoko' to the workers in the yards. The vast majority of these operations take place on private land and use private roads and you have the land-owner's blanket permission to pretty much operate where, and as required, as long as you get the job done quickly and efficiently.

 

 

[FlyingVizsla]

Final Report by ATSB:-

 

http://www.atsb.com.au/publications/investigation_reports/2013/aair/ao-2013-151.aspx

 

Media report - ABC News

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-15/report-finds-take-off-mistake-probably-caused-fatal-light-plane/5454272?section=qld

 

A report into a fatal light plane crash in north-west Queensland has found a misjudged take-off was the most likely cause of the accident.