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guni83
21st Jul 2016, 05:12
Light plane lands in lake at Sydney's Liverpool Golf Club
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https://www.facebook.com/150193968355734/photos/a.479355765439551.107730.150193968355734/1147738195267968/?type=3
Emergency crews are responding after the aircraft crashed in the water near the 10th hole at Liverpool Golf Course at Lansvale just before 1.50pm on Thursday.
No one is believed to have been injured in the incident.
The golf course is a short distance from Bankstown Airport.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/light-plane-lands-in-lake-at-sydneys-liverpool-golf-club-20160721-gqaog3.html
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/32115567/light-plane-makes-emergency-landing-into-liverpool-golf-club-dam/#page1
"Ultralight" and "motor failure". As usual, that's some fine reporting......
tail wheel
21st Jul 2016, 05:54
Piper Warrior?
Engine Failure.
https://s.yimg.com/dh/ap/default/160720/2.jpg
Hole in one! :ok:
Trent 972
21st Jul 2016, 06:55
Liverpool 10th hole - 355 m par 4.
Bloody good effort to make the water off the tee.
Well done that man. :ok:
Or was it Ladies Day today?
The Banjo
21st Jul 2016, 07:04
Tail Wheel,
Not a "hole in one", but "one in a hole........"
Stanwell
21st Jul 2016, 07:07
Yer a cheeky bugger, Trent.
I have a friend in the upholstery detailing business out Bankstown way.
Shouldn't be too costly, because the fabric had been soaked immediately after the event.
Anyway, how does one 'land' in a lake?
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ghyde
21st Jul 2016, 07:07
Identified
Engine failure and forced landing involving Piper PA-28, VH-TAK, 3 km NW of Bankstown Airport, New South Wales, 21 July 2016
Investigation: AO-2016-082 - Engine failure and forced landing involving Piper PA-28, VH-TAK, 3 km NW of Bankstown Airport, New South Wales, 21 July 2016 (http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2016/aair/ao-2016-082/)
das Uber Soldat
21st Jul 2016, 07:52
Not many places to go when the noise stops on upwind runway 29. Well done to the pilot.
bentleg
21st Jul 2016, 08:20
On the TV news tonight. All got out ok. :-)
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/liverpool-leader/an-ultralight-has-crashed/news-story/03e5837e6b972e6b524b50d84d582240
EFATO
emeritus
21st Jul 2016, 08:29
Seem to recall a DC3 in the water hazard at the Golf Links E of Syd A/P
years ago! :ouch:
Ultralights
21st Jul 2016, 09:30
looks like he was about to burn into his 45 mins reserve, so, shut down to prevent becoming a criminal. :}
Egipps
21st Jul 2016, 10:25
Didn't know that a warrior was an ultralight :rolleyes:
Investigation: AO-2016-082 - Engine failure and forced landing involving Piper PA-28, VH-TAK, 3 km NW of Bankstown Airport, New South Wales, 21 July 2016 (http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2016/aair/ao-2016-082/)
Liverpool 10th hole - 355 m par 4.
Do well to get a par from there after a drop outta the hazard. :cool:
Trent 972
21st Jul 2016, 11:42
Red pegs - Lateral Water Hazard
Drop a ball outside the water hazard within two club-lengths of and not nearer the hole than (i) the point where the original ball last crossed the margin of the water hazard or (ii) a point on the opposite margin of the water hazard equidistant from the hole (Rule 26-1 c).
Ah, 'tis but a chip and a putt from there.
Has Jonesy been making you take it all the way back?
airtags
21st Jul 2016, 11:57
Have some great shots from the other side of the lake but the site won't let me upload - not a lot of places to set down & a better outcome than attempting to turn back
that said the golf cliché count is up...
birdie... not quite an eagle....take (another) drop.....under par.....
AT
:E
Alchemy101
21st Jul 2016, 12:01
Fantastic effort. I am always hesitant about flying to Bankstown, as there are so few good options for a forced landing, particularly in the VFR lane North.
Stanwell
21st Jul 2016, 14:23
Well mate, if it wasn't a Cessna and it wasn't big enough to be a Boeing, it had to be an ultralight .. OK?
Egipps
21st Jul 2016, 23:38
Now how did I forget that? :confused:
Stanwell
22nd Jul 2016, 00:13
Looking at that report, I was gratified to be reminded of the ATSB's thoroughness.
After reporting that the cause of the unscheduled alighting was due to 'engine failure', it concludes with ..
"As part of the investigation, the pilot will be interviewed".
Right!
Capt Fathom
22nd Jul 2016, 00:20
I bet the only thing that didn't get wet were their headsets! :E
das Uber Soldat
22nd Jul 2016, 01:44
Could have been far worse, like upwind on 11
You're dead right! I used to lower the nose on the simulated failure and ask the students where they would go? It wasn't a teaching exercise, I really wanted to know! :P
Ken Borough
22nd Jul 2016, 05:56
Seem to recall a DC3 in the water hazard at the Golf Links E of Syd A/P
It was an East West aircraft, 1957. A 'Crash Comic' article is here:
https://www.casa.gov.au/file/111886/download?token=gh5DGRKZ
If the engine fails on late upwind of RWY 11, you also have the option of the sports field at Bankstown Boys (or whatever it's called these day).
The flying school I worked at did have a C152 experience an EFATO of RWY 11 and the student was able to put it down in the grass area just before the airport boundry fence.
Ida down
3rd Aug 2016, 10:57
Seem to recall a DC3 in the water hazard at the Golf Links E of Syd A/P
years ago! :ouch:
Yep. He pulled the wrong tap back, after engine failure.
PA 28 Dakota ??..looks like a rolling stop into the pond..shouldnt take long to dry out, revamp and rewire…