Good Result, everyone walked away and the plane can be used again.
How was he conversing with the QF aircraft, area freq or 121.5
That part of the country and that time of evening I would have thought that contact on 121.5 would have been possible with someone to pass on a confirmed SAR cancelation.
During my training I was never taught that if it all went
that most high level traffic listens out on 121.5 and you can more than likely get hold of some one. Even waiting 15-30mins and trying again on the radio once on the ground could produce a result and save the full SAR call out.
In the end good result and not having a go but how many new ppl/cpl's don't know that people are listening?