Cessna goes swimming in Lake Eyre
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Cessna goes swimming in Lake Eyre
No.... this isn't a re-cap of the Cessna that flew below sea level a number of years ago.... I am hearing a reports of a Cessna possibly out of William Creek going for a swim yesterday with 6 POB in Belt Bay - all had to be choppered out 
Desert Flower, do you have any more info from your neck of the woods? Could have been piloted by the namesake of the operator.... or so they are saying
Desert Flower, do you have any more info from your neck of the woods? Could have been piloted by the namesake of the operator.... or so they are saying
Nope - for once I know nuffin'! But I am guessing it was probably one of Willy Creek's ones. Don't know what it is with Lake Eyre & 210's - some sort of fatal attraction by the look of it!
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DF, fatal for the aircraft perhaps.... Particularly Cessnas and the occasional Airvan.
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Is there any water left in the lake?
If so, it would still be in Belt Bay which is the lowest part of the lake. But, jeesus wept, if anyone had an engine problem and had to put it down there then they must have been awfully low when it happened as its not all that far across the bay.
Just to add it would be a very muddy experience for all concerned. The crust is not that thick when there has been water.
If it is a 210 then most likely out of Willy Creek as I heard that there was a couple based there now.
If so, it would still be in Belt Bay which is the lowest part of the lake. But, jeesus wept, if anyone had an engine problem and had to put it down there then they must have been awfully low when it happened as its not all that far across the bay.
Just to add it would be a very muddy experience for all concerned. The crust is not that thick when there has been water.
If it is a 210 then most likely out of Willy Creek as I heard that there was a couple based there now.
Last edited by PLovett; 4th May 2013 at 11:10.
Don't know what it is with Lake Eyre & 210's
The rotary I won't joke about.
if anyone had an engine problem and had to put it down there then they must have been awfully low when it happened
Wasn't VH-WRA a Gippsland GA-8-01-007 Airvan GA that was once registered to Wrightsair at William Creek?
So the C210 is?
So the C210 is?
Last edited by gerry111; 4th May 2013 at 16:51.
So was it a C210 or WRA? I flew WRA once, she was a nice Airvan, had that lovely overhead air vent the others didn't which made it great to fly....you know, for a scarevan!
