Seven News had a piece about a bloke who got caught short in a big way near Lake Eyre, landed on the salt and promptly got bogged. (No pun intended) Not clear whether he didn't have an epirb, but he walked out overnight and was found the next day, seriously dehydrated. Couple of lessons to be learnt there methinks.
Just saw a photo on FB of aircraft - have no way of uploading it though. It's RAA sports aircraft. Pilot is at YWMC.
DF.
P.S. Someone is now saying it's a 4 seat diamond DA40 GA aircraft.