Nambucca Heads light aircraft crash 04/01/2025

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-04/light-plane-crash-near-nsw-nambucca-heads/104784878?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

[ClintonB]

yesterday afternoon was near perfect weather along here, very sad. 

[turboplanner]

VH Registration visible in footage (Daily Mail Australia).

[FlyingVizsla]

1 hour ago, turboplanner said:

VH Registration visible in footage (Daily Mail Australia).

Yet the ABC article says

In a statement the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said they were aware of the incident involving "an aircraft on the recreational register".

 

Maybe the Daily Mail was using "file footage"? 

 

[FlyBoy1960]

The daily mail is behind some sort of ad blocker on my computer so it makes really difficult to read or see but there is a good photograph of the horizontal stabiliser and elevator in one of the photos that is floating. It might be the top of the rudder at somebody should be able to identify the aircraft type from that photograph. It definitely sounds composite because of the reports of fibrous debris washing up on the shore. On the photographs I could see there was certainly no registration visible

[facthunter]

ATSB covers ALL transport. Years ago we had a dedicated AVIATION body. AND a minister for CIVIL AVIATION.  Nev

[BrendAn]

1 hour ago, FlyingVizsla said:

Yet the ABC article says

In a statement the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said they were aware of the incident involving "an aircraft on the recreational register".

 

Maybe the Daily Mail was using "file footage"? 

 

your right. the daily mail footage shows a heli winching up a survivor in a life jacket as well. different crash to yesterdays.

[turboplanner]

1 hour ago, FlyingVizsla said:

Yet the ABC article says

In a statement the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said they were aware of the incident involving "an aircraft on the recreational register".

 

Maybe the Daily Mail was using "file footage"? 

 

The video was contiguous, Jetskis around it 1.5 km SDth Nambucca Heads 4 pm "ATSB investigating", 1 body retrieved, another report stating "Microlight" so some clarity needed.

Edited Sunday at 01:03 AM by turboplanner

[turboplanner]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

ATSB covers ALL transport. Years ago we had a dedicated AVIATION body. AND a minister for CIVIL AVIATION.  Nev

So does NTSB in the US - Aviation, Railroad, Highway, Marine, Pipeline, Hazardous Materials.

 

Stops the dog whistling of six heads of departments.

 

Victoria recently added Planning to Transport so theoretically roughly 3000 people to whittle down.

[onetrack]

The media reports about this crash are full of garbage, mostly because there were a very low number of witnesses, and the crash was far out to sea. The media is throwing in any unassociated aviation crash rubbish, trying to garner clicks.

 

The facts at this point are that the pilot and passenger involved were two males aged 67 and 69, and they have been reported as both being flying instructors. They took off from a private airstrip near Coffs Harbour at around 3:30PM.

The small amount of wreckage retrieved, points to a recreational-type aircraft, and I doubt whether the ATSB will become involved in an investigation.

 

Two bodies recovered after light plane crash off NSW Mid North Coast - ABC News

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Authorities recover the bodies of two men who died in a plane crash off Nambucca Heads on the Coffs Harbour coast yesterday.

 

[SGM]

Aircraft was a Sling. Here is the wing. 

There are RAAus Slings at both Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie.

Edited Sunday at 03:37 AM by SGM

[davo194]

Sting NOT Sling

[SGM]

Yep typo.  Definitely a Sting.

[Neil_S]

 

Sting - could be registered GA or RAAus.

If GA, ATSB will investigate, if RAAus they won't. 

Makes SOOOO much sense - not.

[Thruster88]

Looks like a parachute with the wreckage?, could have been released with the impact. 

[BrendAn]

channel 9 said it was raaus and the pilot/owner also owns a flying school

if its the person they said it was its not his plane. he has a foxbat

Edited Sunday at 07:39 AM by BrendAn

[FlyBoy1960]

i wonder if it was @Farcoffs 

[Blueadventures]

58 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

channel 9 said it was raaus and the pilot/owner also owns a flying school

if its the person they said it was its not his plane. he has a foxbat

Terrible and sad enough, to loose instructors adds to the sorrow as instructors are in short declining numbers.

[BrendAn]

4 minutes ago, Blueadventures said:

Terrible and sad enough, to loose instructors adds to the sorrow as instructors are in short declining numbers.

2 instructors in one crash. 

[BrendAn]

Experienced instructors killed in Nambucca Heads plane crash

5 hours ago · Bodies of pilot and pass

The pilot, Mark White, 67, was an experienced pilot and instructor at local flying school Midcoast Microlights. Mr White and 69 year-old passenger were believed to be training at the time.

The aircraft left a private airfield at Coffs Harbour about 3.30pm yesterday with two men on board, NSW Police confirmed.

Emergency services battled dangerous conditions in their attempts to recover the small Sting aircraft from Scotts Head Beach on Sunday.

Police Inspector Stuart Campbell said “we’re struggling with the tides and movement of the debris”

enger recovered after light plane crash off NSW north coast ... who have confirmed the aircraft left a private airfield at Coffs Harbour about 3.30pm 

[Garfly]

Ch7 News:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI2G7Yo8GZM

 

[onetrack]

Ballistic 'chute fitted, but not deployed? With 2 highly experienced flying instructors on board, one can only surmise catastrophic structural failure, and inadequate height/time to deploy the 'chute.

Very sad event - made even more concerning, that blokes with their level of experience could not avoid the devastating crash.

[BrendAn]

1 hour ago, onetrack said:

Ballistic 'chute fitted, but not deployed? With 2 highly experienced flying instructors on board, one can only surmise catastrophic structural failure, and inadequate height/time to deploy the 'chute.

Very sad event - made even more concerning, that blokes with their level of experience could not avoid the devastating crash.

Witnesses observed it flying very low struggling to gain altitude.

 

[pmccarthy]

https://www.9news.com.au/national/nsw-mid-north-coast-light-plane-crash-at-gaagal-wanggaan-national-park-near-nambucca-heads/ce07835b-342a-437a-9438-87805059dc51
 

includes a before photo of the Sting ( unless it is a stock photo of another one).

[SGM]

Unfortunately, that is almost certainly the Sting.  It is from the facebook page of the other instructor who is named in the 9news article.