Our little parachuting mob south of Sydney last weekend had an engine failure on climbout in the C185 (COX) with 5 pob. Pulled off a rather good forced landing into the strip.....all crawled over the aeroplane (no engineers naturally) and then sent it aloft again with 5 pax. ALAS; the same happened again this time with the pilot narrowly missing a fence and tree but into the strip nonetheless.
Any report to CASA - NO!
This is their 4th engine failure in past 12 months but in all fairness, the other two were FUEL EXHAUSTION so that makes it OK?
How long is it going to be before we have 3, 4 or more dead friends to bury?
