SpazSinbad
19th Nov 2023, 08:02
Media keep reporting these jet trainers (now owned/flown by civvies) as 'light aircraft'. Mid-air collision, probably no ejection seats fitted, but just my guess. SAD. I don't know the details of these jets - now civilian owned.
"...Civilian operators - Australia
21 ex-RSAF S-211s were retired and sold to the IAP Group Australia in December 2009, including a cannibalised airframe. Fifteen have since been sold off and placed on the Australian civil registry."
SIAI-Marchetti S.211 - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIAI-Marchetti_S.211)
Jet crashes into Port Phillip Bay after midair collision near Victoria's Mornington Peninsula
Jet crashes into Port Phillip Bay after midair collision near Victoria's Mornington Peninsula (msn.com) (https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/jet-crashes-into-port-phillip-bay-after-midair-collision-near-victoria-s-mornington-peninsula/ar-AA1kacbe)
"...Civilian operators - Australia
21 ex-RSAF S-211s were retired and sold to the IAP Group Australia in December 2009, including a cannibalised airframe. Fifteen have since been sold off and placed on the Australian civil registry."
SIAI-Marchetti S.211 - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIAI-Marchetti_S.211)
Jet crashes into Port Phillip Bay after midair collision near Victoria's Mornington Peninsula
Jet crashes into Port Phillip Bay after midair collision near Victoria's Mornington Peninsula (msn.com) (https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/jet-crashes-into-port-phillip-bay-after-midair-collision-near-victoria-s-mornington-peninsula/ar-AA1kacbe)