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I just watch on CNN international a newsline telling about two light aircraft involved in a mid-air over Sydney.
Anybody knows something abuot it?
It said that one of the aircraft landed.
I hope it is not true.
Spitoon
5th May 2002, 14:54
http://au.news.yahoo.com/020505/2/7m0j.html
Sad.
Comiserations to all affected.
arminius
7th May 2002, 00:13
a very sad event.
Link to Dunnunda & Godzone ... extensive discussion on the tragic event.
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52272
Link here. (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52272)
Henry Kater
8th May 2002, 08:32
I am a student pilot based at Bankstown YSBK.
From what I have heard a Tobago was on left base leg to 29L or 29C (not sure which) for a touch and go, whilst a piper warrior (which later crashed fatally with 4 occupants) was on right base to 29R or 29C when they connected.
One witness reported the Tobago as making a sudden swerve to the right, where it clipped the rudder of the warrior. The warrior was seen to roll and crash, whilst the tobago (with instructer and student landed safely). The tobago pilots have not been charged, though they are under suspicion.
My "guess" is that the violent swerve to the right by the tobago sounds suspiciously like an evasive manouver, in an attempt to avoid hitting the warrior, which most likely strayed to the left of its intended path. I say this because the tobago had an instructer seated in the right seat who would have had a clear view of the warrior. My money is on the instructer. The pilot of the warrior was an experienced private pilot.
This is the only fatal that I have heard of at YSBK. There was one nearby at Hoxton Park a few years back, caused by both private pilots not keeping a good look-out for traffic.
Regards
HK
My sympathies to the friends and relatives.
I have had a couple of lessons at YSBK, (keeping my hand in while on holiday in Aus) and the triple parallel runway arrangement is not for the faint-hearted.
I was given 29C to land. On finals, I could see two other aircraft heading towards me from both left and right, cleared to land on 29R and 29L. I just had to hope they knew which runway they were headed for and turned final at the correct moment. I am sure that locals are used to it, but it is un-nerving for a visitor.
A sad event for all.