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Old 6th Jun 2016, 07:53
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Two bogged on Lake Eyre in the past year:

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Bogged plane at Lake Eyre a monument to bad day in the outback - ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The doctor, embarrassingly a member of my own profession, gets a particularly honourable mention for:

1. Electing to land in the middle of Lake Eyre in an aircraft with tiny wheels because he felt 'ill'.

2. Not having a PLB, a Delorme or a Spot and presumably not thinking to set off the ELT with which his aircraft was almost certainly equipped.

3. Electing to try and walk out 70km at one of the hottest times of the year.

4. Only taking a tiny amount of water -- particularly stupid for a renal physician.

Although he failed to win a Darwin Award this time, with form like this he should be the proud recipient before too long.

(And Supermouse -- there's a 'Bush Flyers Down Under' Facebook page which may interest you.)
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