Cootharabah. Glastar into a backyard 12/11/2023

[Kyle Communications]

🚨🚨Active Incident 🚨🚨 Paramedics have assessed 2 patients after the...

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🚨🚨Active Incident 🚨🚨 Paramedics have assessed 2 patients after the light aircraft they were in came down in a residential backyard at Cootharaba....

I know whose aircraft this is..looks like he is ok and the wife flown to hospital but not critical injuries thank god

 

 

[Thruster88]

These normally have a lycoming 320,360 or 390 engine. That one looks like a Subaru EJ.

[facthunter]

Might be  the one I've flown in. Had a very special Red. drive. They are quite a nice plane but I'd keep the Lycoming in it.  Nev

[red750]

[red750]

In the same news broadcast, a Cirrus (model unknown) was involved in an emergency landing in Texas, overshot the runway and collided with a car.

[Thruster88]

51 minutes ago, red750 said:

In the same news broadcast, a Cirrus (model unknown) was involved in an emergency landing in Texas, overshot the runway and collided with a car.

That was a Lancair 4p, normal looking circuit entry, went off end at speed on the second attempt.  

[red750]

Only saw it for a couple of seconds, and it was a bit blurry.

[Kyle Communications]

The Gastar was made originally with the suburu but he bought a Lycoming and was going to refit it I believe. I know he had just upgraded the wheels and brakes

 

 

 

[onetrack]

Scott Reeman, a LifeFlight Rescue Aircrew Officer, said the plane was coming in to land on the private airstrip and “ended up somersaulting and crashing into a tree”.

“It clipped a palm tree in a house yard while it was airborne and then cartwheeled end-to-end across the yard and clipped another tree,” he said.

The pair were able to get themselves out of the wreckage, Reeman said.

 

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/347798

 

The wreckage of the light plane that crashed in a Sunshine Coast backyard.  CREDIT:RACQ LIFEFLIGHT

Edited November 12, 2023 by onetrack

[Kyle Communications]

From the pilot himself on FB only partial of hs post

His wife has a few broken ribs and some vertibrae damage but will recover ok

 

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So, we had been out for a pleasant morning flight up the coast. We were coming in to land a got a gust of crosswind that blew the aircraft to the right, I’d initiated a go around but clipped a tree which caused us to speared into the ground.

Thankfully the Glastar has a very good safety cage and we were wearing 4 point harnesses."

[facthunter]

The way things are going there will be many more wind and weather related incidents/ accidents.  Nev

[poteroo]

On 13/11/2023 at 12:02 PM, facthunter said:

The way things are going there will be many more wind and weather related incidents/ accidents.  Nev

Do you mean as in more violent wx events due to ' climate change '?  If I remember correctly this strip is uphill several degrees to the west - which would require your go round to be initiated earlier? Most pvt strip's only have a single windsock, often lost to sight on short final. Makes it hard to detect a late wind change.  RLOC strikes again!