View Full Version : Gyrocopter crash at Burra today
Desert Flower
9th Oct 2014, 02:42
A gyrocopter crashed onto the golf course at Burra in S.A.'s mid north this morning. The pilot sustained a badly lacerated finger plus a broken leg. He was initially taken to the Burra hospital, but later flown to Adelaide.
DF.
Amazing journalism, ABC (if DF's version is the correct one).
"Powered hang-glider pilot escapes serious injury after crash in SA's mid-north"
Powered hang-glider pilot escapes serious injury after crash in SA's mid-north - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-09/hang-glider-pilot-escapes-serious-injury-after-crash-in-sa/5801284)
Dean
Desert Flower
9th Oct 2014, 03:34
Amazing journalism, ABC (if DF's version is the correct one)
I'm going by what I read on the SA GRN paging feed, & also what I heard on the communication between the Burra ambulance & the Burra hospital, so I think my version is pretty much spot on. ;-)
DF.
PS - obviously now it was a powered hang glider & not a gyrocopter as was stated by the SES personnel that first alerted me to the incident. Even on the paging feed it came up as a light aircraft crash, which I guess it was - sort of!
Yahoo News goes one step further and runs a story describing it as both a powered hang-glider AND a gyrocopter!
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/25218296/gyrocopter-pilot-escapes-serious-injury-after-crash-in-sas-mid-north/
Dean
And there's no sign of rotor blades in the picture being run. Looks to me like it would be better described as an ultralight....
late_starter
9th Oct 2014, 11:10
Photo in the Yahoo link is of a trike (microlight)