Plane crash Hervey Bay

[TBM-Legend]

I don’t see anything on the Cessna that crashed and burnt out doing a forced landing near Hervey Bay. Pilot called a Mayday with an engine issue and crash landed in a paddock according to the local news. He escaped with minor injuries

[anssec]

Yes, weird that fuse completely burnt and wings inc fuel tanks intact. No ATSB reports and no rego on Aviation Safety Network site?

[TBM-Legend]

Drug runner perhaps

[1a sound asleep]

Single Pilot, Single Engine Piper


https://images.7news.com.au/publication/C-13426287/16ed50107c0c1f67998179824351774714b113e8-16x9-x0y0w2000h1125.jpg?imwidth=1024&impolicy=sevennews_v2


https://7news.com.au/news/pilot-escapes-with-head-laceration-as-light-plane-reduced-to-rubble-in-hervey-bay-crash-c-13426287

[Clare Prop]

"He got off easy considering his ordeal" This is journalism?

[megan]

Single Engine PiperWould think a Cessna with those flaps.

[Capt Fathom]

Looks like Cessna 182 tailplane.... and a strut visible under the wing. Certainly burnt well.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1910x690/screenshot_2024_02_04_at_12_11_42_a113b54edde0270f06024e9d9f 6c2eec8740fbbd.jpg

[Lead Balloon]

I'm surprised 43" hasn't analysed and solved this one yet.

[septuganarian]

Looks like Cessna 182 tailplane.... and a strut visible under the wing. Certainly burnt well.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1910x690/screenshot_2024_02_04_at_12_11_42_a113b54edde0270f06024e9d9f 6c2eec8740fbbd.jpg Cessna 206. Square elevator balance tips.

[43Inches]

I'm surprised 43" hasn't analysed and solved this one yet.

My analysis is that it's a Pipcesscraft C130 being flown by a cowboy. He's just lit up a stogie to celebrate another successful lift off, the engine flutters from a faulty thronomeister, causing the pilot to gasp, and the cigar drops from his lips. As he lines up a perfect field for a textbook forced landing, and is set up on final, the still lit stogie burns through his Lees and singes his left testicle, incapacitating him momentarily, but long enough that he botches the landing and rolls into an aluminium ball. Luckily, pants still smoldering he extricates himself from the wreckage, but the remains of the cigar set leaking fuel alight and the rest of the plane is doomed.

[Lead Balloon]

Nailed it!

[Stationair8]

Another faulty thronomeister accident, when will CASA demand they are removed from all GA aircraft!

[Squawk7700]

Another faulty thronomeister accident, when will CASA demand they are removed from all GA aircraft!

The NTSB and FAA have mandated that all US operated piston engine aircraft be fitted with V2 of the Thronmeister, but CASA seem reluctant to follow suit.

[43Inches]

Still no word on the flux gauge and exothermal capacitor issues, but there could be movement on the crank valve cases. Could be another Boeing sized cover up for the FAA to deal with. Iv'e heard Pipcesscraft Caravans with single cylinder gas to noise converters could be next on the list.

[KRviator]

The NTSB and FAA have mandated that all US operated piston engine aircraft be fitted with V2 of the Thronmeister, but CASA seem reluctant to follow suit.Quick clarification, the NTSB can't mandate anything, they can only recommend. That being said, you're spot on about the FAA requiring it. I believe EASA was only a day or two behind the FAA too for those in Europe. Seems we're one of the few places they can remain in service...:ugh:

[43Inches]

An update on the Cowboy, apparently he will make a full recovery ,which is good, except that the singed appendage may have to be amputated due to infection. There is also talk the infection may have even spread to the other side and middle part, which may also need removal. Sheila his long suffering wife was apathetic, saying "he's never home and always flying or spending long weekends away, camping in the mountains with his cowboy friend Jack", while she is left to run the 1000 hectare ranch with several dogs for company. Jack is devastated and has not left his side since the incident. Apparently he has no health insurance so a crowd funding site has agreed to fund the upcoming surgery.

[runway16]

If I believe the TV News guy it was a Piper Cherokee and that a control tower is now at Hervey Bay.

Funny I could not see the control tower when I was there last time!

But we all know that the TV News people are always right! Yeah. And I believe in the Father Christmas.