View Full Version : Fatal Cherokee crash near Proserpine Queensland Australia
helispotter
3rd Apr 2023, 00:12
Search underway for a (light) aircraft missing near Proserpine in Queensland Australia since yesterday evening:
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/qld/2023/04/03/missing-plane-central-qld/
Flight Radar 24 currently shows AMSA Challenger 604 VH-XNC circling a location south-west of Proserpine. Hope for a good outcome.
MJ_HopeIsland
3rd Apr 2023, 04:15
Just read that this is confirmed double fatality. Sad outcome for all involved.
Sad outcome....
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/search-to-find-vanished-plane-in-queensland/news-story/79b8f4faf2b243f842dda0d92173cba0
Call sign was VH-PXR
helispotter
3rd Apr 2023, 09:43
Sad outcome. Another similar report by Channel 9 news at:
https://www.9news.com.au/national/search-for-missing-light-plane-north-queensland/b23dfcd0-abf5-41ec-9b0a-d838f8d1569f
Summary from this article:
The wreckage was spotted at 10.15am by a QGAir Rescue helicopter based in Townsville more than 15 hours after the flight was reported missing when the couple failed to arrive at Lakeside Airpark.
Inspector Andrew Godbold from Queensland Police confirmed the crash site had been found and said it could take up to three days to retrieve the bodies. "The only way in is via helicopter at this stage,...It's a very rugged terrain". He said it was believed the plane got into difficulties during a storm... "They would have been faced with a lot of showers, a lot of thunder and probably visibility down to nothing", He said the plane... appeared to have turned back towards the mountains.
It seems I can't amend the title of this thread.
I read an earlier news report that said the couple were flying down to "attend a pregnancy appointment in Mackay"..
Weather sounds like it was fairly ordinary as well :"They would have been faced with a lot of showers, a lot of thunder and probably visibility down to nothing."
"He said the plane, which belonged to Kuhrt, appeared to have turned back towards the mountains."
Low time pilot, bad weather, pregnant wife having a 3rd trimester scan? Perhaps a tragic case of get- there-itis.
helispotter
11th Apr 2023, 12:47
ATSB has an initial summary of the accident on their website in the meantime. But not much detail as yet:
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2023/report/ao-2023-013
Australian Aviation has a worrying article referencing a Courier-Mail article. You would think they would be checking information reasonably carefully before making such claims?:
https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/04/amateur-pilot-in-piper-crash-may-have-been-unlicenced-say-reports/
megan
12th Apr 2023, 01:21
Thread with info running here.
https://www.pprune.org/pacific-general-aviation-questions/652164-another-weather-related-crash-north-queensland.html