Aircraft Missing en-route to Mildura
Just heard on CH7 news an aircraft is overdue/missing en-route to YMIA.
UPDATE:
From News Ltd.
POLICE and aviation rescuers are searching for a man who hasn't been seen since he took off from an airfield in New South Wales's far south west yesterday morning.
Police have been told the 79-year-old left in a single-engine Cessna from Wentworth, about 30km north-west of Mildura, 10am yesterday.
Shortly before 3pm police were alerted when he failed to return.
A search was initiated and continued today involving several local pilots who volunteered to look for the missing man.
Checks have showed the aircraft has not refuelled at any of the airfields within the estimated fight range.
The man is from Mildura, in Victoria.
Read more:
Elderly pilot missing near Mildura | News.com.au
Last edited by Ovation; 29th May 2012 at 10:58.