Taree incident
No doubt the ATSB will get to the truth of this potentially disasterous confliction. The undoubted fact is the light aircraft took off over the RPT aircraft which entered the runway whilst it was occupied by the light aircraft. It is not difficult to visually check the runway 04/22 at Taree, a basic check which every pilot should make, before entering the runway. It seems pretty evident that possibly two unacceptable actions were taken in this event. The RPT should not have entered an occupied runway and the light aircraft, if he was not already taking off and had insufficient runway in which to safely abort, should not have taken off with the RPT on the runway. Situational awareness and communications each seem to have been lacking in this case. I look forward to the findings.