Not a Good Day for a Swim
Only way to retire a 210 - sink it.
The pilot should be buying lottery tickets - survived a crash then a swim in shark and croc infested waters ! Bet they'll be after a twin job now ! Glad to hear their safe - lucky it wasn't a full load !
The pilot should be buying lottery tickets - survived a crash then a swim in shark and croc infested waters ! Bet they'll be after a twin job now ! Glad to hear their safe - lucky it wasn't a full load !
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The 210 was landed on the beach below the high tide mark. The police aircraft circled for 3 hours until the Careflight chopper arrive and the tide had then rose to the bottom of the windscreen. The pilot was dry, sitting on the shore. Good outcome for the pilot. The mud geckos and sharks had to find lunch somewhere else.
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206greaser,
If your going to bite, get your facts right. KA recently acquired it off AF. Whilst KA do operate it currently (or did), they were not flying it in this case. The actual owner of the aircraft (not KA) had hired it out to a private person who then sunk it.... god knows what he was doing so far off the coast.
If your going to bite, get your facts right. KA recently acquired it off AF. Whilst KA do operate it currently (or did), they were not flying it in this case. The actual owner of the aircraft (not KA) had hired it out to a private person who then sunk it.... god knows what he was doing so far off the coast.
Landing on the beach around there is a far better choice than spearing though the mangroves/monsoon forrests/mudflats/flood plains.
I doubt he was flying 'far off the coast', he would have been flying along the coast and used command judgement to put it down on the beach!
He is lucky it was along that stretch and not further northeast of Darwin. I doubt we would have had the same result.
I doubt he was flying 'far off the coast', he would have been flying along the coast and used command judgement to put it down on the beach!
He is lucky it was along that stretch and not further northeast of Darwin. I doubt we would have had the same result.
Hey 'eeper',
reur 'God knows what he was doing so far off the coast'......
Can you pls advise the departure point and the intended destination?
Cheers
reur 'God knows what he was doing so far off the coast'......
Can you pls advise the departure point and the intended destination?
Cheers
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Pilot survives crash-landing | News | NT News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia | ntnews.com.au
gives the low down .. and I wouldn't be quite so quick with the "so far off the coast" quip!
gives the low down .. and I wouldn't be quite so quick with the "so far off the coast" quip!
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Indeed it was MJD and boy can I tell you it was the most poorly maintained aircraft I have ever flown, hence the nickname Might Just Die (MJD).
I was subjected to flying that bucket whilst on a remote Aboriginal Community in 07-08 and resigned from the equally as shady company because of MJD. It was only a matter of time until it went down the wrong way.
I was subjected to flying that bucket whilst on a remote Aboriginal Community in 07-08 and resigned from the equally as shady company because of MJD. It was only a matter of time until it went down the wrong way.
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At least the dead turtle smell will get washed out now...
Hahahaha I remember a few pilots complaining about that, It will be replaced by another smell of the pilot S**ting himself.
Yes it was a horrible aircraft with very dodgie maintenance. Just one look at the owners other aircraft is enough to start another thread. However it could have been pilot error eg. fuel exhaustion.
If there was something mechanically wrong with MJD we'll never find out. The company who maintains the aircraft (ant therefore will recover and investigate the accident) will never admit that there was any type of maintenance issue. I've seen them do it before on more than one occasion.
the ATSB needs to investigate this accident, chances are that they won't because it was only the pilot on board, BUT there is a fairly convincing case of accident causes being adjusted to suit insurance policies and cover up shotty work.
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