Aircraft ends up on its roof in trees at Warnervale NSW 22/08/2022.

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From the Newsdaily:

 

A 71 year old pilot is “incredibly lucky to walk away” alive after his light plane crashed into trees, flipped and landed on its roof on the NSW Central Coast. 

 

Emergency crews were called to the crash site near Warnervale Airport, north of the Central Coast town of Wyong, just before 11am on Monday.

 

The plane crashed while attempting to land, NSW Police were told.

 

When paramedics arrived they found the aircraft had crashed into trees and come to rest on its roof, NSW Ambulance Inspector Andrew Craig said.

“The pilot has been incredibly lucky to walk away from this crash with minor injuries,” he said.

“Our paramedics know that incidents involving aircraft can be extremely serious and it’s a relief that the man involved today was not badly injured.”

 

Multiple ambulances attended the scene and were helped by off-duty paramedics, who were nearby when the plane came down, NSW Ambulance said in a statement.

 

The pilot suffered only a minor injury to his hand and was taken to John Hunter Hospital in a stable condition.

NSW Police are investigating and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau have been notified.

 

[Carbon Canary]

I think that is one of Warnervale Air's (flight school) C172Ns.

[facthunter]

It's quite intact. Must have been a relatively low energy thing.. VH is under CASA jurisdiction. Nev

[Blueadventures]

Its grabbed a wire fence and interesting grass and dirt port side front of cowl.

[onetrack]

The prop is barely bent, he must have had the presence of mind to kill the engine as he went into the trees.

[Thruster88]

Elevator trim tab is in a fair nose down position, not what you would expect for landing with one pob. Maybe a go round. 

[turboplanner]

2 hours ago, Thruster88 said:

Elevator trim tab is in a fair nose down position, not what you would expect for landing with one pob. Maybe a go round. 

Or maybe knocked or bumped. Looks like the elevator is being squashed up by a sapling?

 

[Blueadventures]

7 hours ago, onetrack said:

The prop is barely bent, he must have had the presence of mind to kill the engine as he went into the trees.

Fence wire both sides of prop hub so fence has been involved to some extent; maybe only the flip over.

[RFguy]

looks like it would  still fly if oil was put back in the engine.  ground around there is a swamp, tail probably went in like a knife. Stuart will all the oil drain out of a Lyco in that position just left ?

 

[onetrack]

And to introduce a bit of levity, seeing as the pilot is O.K. - after all this, it really was a Cessna that crashed?  

[Carbon Canary]

Reasonably sure it was VH-PYW.   

 

Yes, Cessna's are also subjected to the vagaries of gravity.

[Thruster88]

7 hours ago, RFguy said:

looks like it would  still fly if oil was put back in the engine.  ground around there is a swamp, tail probably went in like a knife. Stuart will all the oil drain out of a Lyco in that position just left ?

 

No oil will be lost if the breather pipe is not disrupted. The open end of the breather is way above the oil level now.