TASAIR Cessna forced landing

[Pass-A-Frozo]

Just saw on the news a Cessna that apparently did a forced landing on a highway. Looked like a TASAIR Cessna. Anyone know the details?

[scrambler]

A quick search of ABC news produced the following

Light plane crashes onto highway near Hobart
A teenager and her father have had a lucky escape after their light plane crashed onto a highway near Hobart this afternoon.

Police say the 19-year-old trainee pilot was taking off from Hobart airport when her light plane lost power.

The pilot alerted the control tower and attempted to land the plane in a paddock on the other side of the Tasman Highway, but the plane clipped a three-metre-high fence and flipped onto its back.

Police say the woman and her father were not injured but the woman has been treated at the Royal Hobart Hospital for shock.

The highway has been re-opened to traffic.

Inspector Paul Gray, of Tasmania Police, says the pair were lucky to escape without any injuries.

"The fence has been knocked over, the plane doesn't appear to be badly damaged at all," he said.

"But I certianly wouldn't want to fly in it for a while."

[Chadzat]

"The fence has been knocked over, the plane doesn't appear to be badly damaged at all,"

Not often that sentence is seen in that order!!

No doubt an experience that the "trainee" won't forget for a while.

[fanning]

Not having much of a good run Tasair it appears, looking at recent media reports at least.
Landing Gear collapsed at YMHB in a C206 couple of months ago, upon landing (whisper i've heard is there was maybe a mishap at a remote location and the plane was flown back :eek:)
Then an embarrasing gear retraction in a PA31 on the ground at YMHB (did this also happen in another aircraft of theirs...?)... maybe the move to YMHB from YCBG a couple of years ago is paying dividends by being closer to the Fire Trucks :}
And then of course, the very tragic loss of the Shrike Commander with the pilot as the only occupant in central Tas in early 2004...
Recent article in flight safety magazine about Carby Ice and doing a ditching also relates to one of their operations a few years back.

[Hotpot]

After all the accidents and incidents,Tasair's insurance costs must be going through the roof. Is it old aircraft,in experienced pilots or what ? Fanning, you may have something there about moving down the road. I see the operator at YCBG has a heap of Titans now :ok: I'd rather fly in a Titan than a Navaho any day. :ok:

[flywatcher]

You are being a bit harsh on Tasair. They are a well run outfit with good, well maintained aircraft and good staff. They have given a start to many pilots such as yourself. Perhaps you should rethink some of your comments, they can't be doing too much wrong if you look at the lack of turnover of senior staff over the last twenty years.

[TwinNDB]

Flywatcher,

You don't work for them at all do you?

Their maintenance may have once been high but over recent times is not what i suggest it may once have been.

[flywatcher]

Twin NDB... negative, never have, never will.

[bigbrother]

probably like most GA operators who have been undercutting each other for years, unable to update the machinery, unwilling to pay pilots what they deserve, and without a clue on how to adopt 'new' thinking to improve anything like flight safety. Any company where the company top brass dismiss CRM as 'not important because we run single pilot' is destined to miss something. Suffer the little children.

[Fantome]

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Passengered recently on one of their King Island - Hobart PA31 RPTs.
Not impressed. Exuding efficiency on the surface. Shallow as and slack with the check list. ("You can tell what sort of a check ride he'll do by how he gets in his seat.")