Trouble at Bankstown
Was talking to a friend today that told me about his aircraft being broken into and moved at Bankstown.
Would seem that when he arrived outside his office at Bankstown he parked his aircraft in a non reserved spot. Next day, he comes out to preflight his aircraft to head home to find it missing and another aircraft in the spot. His aircraft was some 75 metres away.
Door handle had been jimmied, door opened and aircraft then moved. Result was that the handle is all twisted and mechanism in some manner damaged and door will not open correctly from the outside.
Seems as though some owner?/operator? of the aircraft now in the original parking spot felt that as it was where he normally parked his aircraft it belonged to him and took it upon himself that it was right and proper to interfere with an aircraft no matter what.
The affair was witnessed by a number of engineers and the culprits (3 of) identified to police.
Evidently charges are now likely to be laid on at least one person by the police that attended.
The owner was not sure what other ramifications were going to flow from CASA and DOTARS (if any).
Amazing. never heard of anything like this before but it will be interesting to see what happens with all these heightened security measures being implemented. It will be interesting to work out what Regs have been breached here.
Twist is he parked there because the place he normally parks was occupied by a helicopter and he himself went to a nearby vacant spot.
Last edited by d_concord; 27th Feb 2005 at 00:02.