From News.com.au.... . </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"> Pilot burned in plane crash. .AAP. .25mar02. .. .A 24-year-old commercial pilot suffered serious burns when his light-aircraft crashed soon after take-off on remote Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory. . .. .The man was alone aboard the single-engine Cessna 210 chartered aircraft when it crashed on the island off the east Arnhem Land coast, police said today.. .. ."There is a suggestion that he might have hit an aerial," a spokeswoman said.. .. ."He got out and basically the plane exploded and was destroyed.". .. .The man was flown by air ambulance to the Royal Darwin Hospital at 3.10pm yesterday (CST).. .. .Investigations by police and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau are under way. . . </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">Thoughts and prayers to the pilot, family, and those that were on the scene... a terrible thing!. . . . <small>[ 25 March 2002, 04:59: Message edited by: jon.pierre ]</small>