Pilot Bob Bogaard, 60, claims he was flying at a reasonable height.
He said his altimeter was giving him a reading of 500 feet as he soared over the lake on Monday afternoon.
Of course it was.....
The lake is around 500AMSL, Albury is 547'.
This bloke is surely in deep guano
Police are waiting on a blood-alcohol reading for Mr Bogaard, which may take more than a month.
Mr Bogaard said he had not been drinking alcohol before taking off from Holbrook but had swallowed “two litres of petrol” when the plane went down.
Yeah right....swallowed 2L of petrol, he may have swallowed some water with a small fuel content, which would be unpleasant, but if you swallow large amounts of raw fuel you would not be talking to the media. When or if the cops findings show a positive BAC is he going to claim that it was from using E10 fuel?
