Official statement - aircraft incidences
DATE PUBLISHED
13 Dec 2016
Today (December 13) there have been two unrelated aircraft incidences that have occurred at separate locations reported by RFDS (South Eastern Section). Everyone on board both aircraft are safe and well and there are no injuries.
The first incident occurred this afternoon just before 1pm central time. A regular RFDS (South Eastern Section) clinic flight from Broken Hill had a landing incident in Moomba, SA. Three of our staff were on board the aircraft at the time. All staff are well and safe and exited the plane safely. No patients were on board.
Later on this evening at 6.20pm AEDT, an RFDS (South Eastern Section) aircraft experienced a landing incident in Essendon, Victoria during a non emergency patient transfer. None of the passengers were injured and all disembarked the aircraft in the normal manner.
We are liaising closely with the relevant authorities to understand the cause of both separate incidents.
As always the health, safety and wellbeing of our staff and our patients remains our top priority.
DF.