Wheels up - Caboolture

[spinex]

Courier Mail has a short report that someone landed with the dunlops tucked away, a little earlier this afternoon. No details re aircraft.

[TBM-Legend]

...not really..

http://www.google.com.au/url?url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/plane-lands-at-caboolture-following-midair-drama-20160913-grfa9v.html&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiRkqTa4YvPAhWDcD4KHS8QDZoQqQIIFCgAMAA&sig2=QK3e2IpdB8GXFa5N-02_CQ&usg=AFQjCNEPFKkBSNupXF_TPreLxp8gZy_ZxA

[spinex]

Good to hear; about par for the course in terms of media accuracy though.

Mods feel free to can this thread - I would if I could.

[Cloudee]

Surely this could not be so wrong?

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/light-plane-crash-at-terminal-drive-bilinga/news-story/8226f441cb230bd31b61f38d7afa95fa (http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/light-plane-crash-at-terminal-drive-bilinga/news-story/8226f441cb230bd31b61f38d7afa95fa)

Light plane crash at Terminal Drive, Bilinga

http://pixel.tcog.cp1.news.com.au/track/component/article/8226f441cb230bd31b61f38d7afa95fa?esi=true&t_template=s3/chronicle-tg_tlc_storyheader/index&t_product=CourierMail&td_device=desktop Courtney McMullan, The Courier-Mail
September 13, 2016 12:09pm
http://pixel.tcog.cp1.news.com.au/track/component/article/8226f441cb230bd31b61f38d7afa95fa?esi=true&t_template=s3/chronicle-tg_tlc_storymeta/index&t_product=CourierMail&td_device=desktop
TWO people have been injured after a light plane crashed at Bilinga on the Gold Coast.

The incident occurred on Terminal Drive near the Gold Coast airport at 10.30am Tuesday.
Two people were injured in the crash, with one transported to Tweed Heads Hospital in a stable condition.
The other person declined assistance from the QAS.

[spinex]

Different event - this is the Diamond wheels up at YBCG

[Acrosport II]

Plane Lands at Caboolture Following Mid-Air Drama
Sounds serious based on the reports of the tabloid type news heading.


For me, 'Mid-Air' conjures up images of aircraft contacting inflight.


Should that be 'in-air' drama.


They certainly had enough 'Appliances' there!.

[tail wheel]

Totally, totally off topic of course, but it is interesting to see the aviation business lost by Archerfield airport in it's quest to become a non aviation commercial environment:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/f/a/g/1/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.grfa9v.png/1473743852409.jpg

Quite sad really. I recall when Archerfield was a thriving hub of aviation maintenance, GA, flying training etc in the late 1980s, but even then with the FAC the end was in sight.

[Jabawocky]

The lazy journo could not take an up to date photo on a phone? :roll eyes:

That picture is sooooooo old.

[megle2]

So Jab, what's the up to date sign look like
More or less enterprises

[FlexibleResponse]

As spinex said, the wheels-up landing happened at YBCG. It landed right in the middle of the runway, not Terminal Drive. Happened at about 1020 am and closed the airport for about an hour. Something to watch while I drank my coffee.

https://twitter.com/9NewsGoldCoast/status/775513363510095872/photo/1