http://www.atsb.com.au/publications/...200601640.aspx
Originally Posted by
QNH1013.2
At the time, police hailed his courage for managing to keep the aircraft away from homes, traffic and businesses in the area.
From the sounds of it in the ATSB report he stalled it and entered a spin at low altitude, he had no control over where the a/c landed, these police are as bad as journos!
Originally Posted by
Rat****
4km "long" of his destination, actually !
He was coming from townsville, and crashed 4nm NE of the field, so he was short.
How he managed to think he had overflown the field with 3GPS units is beyond me (1 fixed and 2 portable)
Poor bloke must have been VERY disoriented.
And to Sunfish, yes i believe that the Lancair would be very unforgiving, i havnt flown one but it has a clean stall speed of 67kts IAS, so getting out of any other light a/c and into the Lancair could be dangerous.
From the looks of the report he may have tried to slow the a/c to search for the field and stalled it, very unfortunate accident.
Turbz