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Light planes grounded over safety concerns
Posted 3 hours 20 minutes ago
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) says up to 3,000 light planes will be grounded across the country tonight because of safety concerns.
CASA spokesman Peter Gibson says an urgent directive was issued in the United States last night to ground and inspect a range of piston-engine planes because of a fuel injection problem.
He says 18 incidents of engine failure in the planes have been reported in the United States.
"The advice we got from the United States was that this is a very serious problem," he said.
"Aircraft should not be allowed to fly until they've been inspected and that's what we've mandated.
"The risk is an engine failure in flight and that's obviously too big a risk to take."
He says no large commercial airlines are affected.