Liverpool Golf Course landing
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Liverpool Golf Course landing
I'm surprised this thread was not started earlier. From NINEMSN news:
Didn't quite get to Bankstown. Despite whatever the reason for the engine failure, the pilot sure did a good job with the landing.
A pilot has made an emergency landing on a golf course in western Sydney.
The pilot was forced to land the single engine light plane on a golf course at Liverpool about 2.30pm (AEST) on Sunday after its engine failed, police said.
No one was injured in the incident, including the 64-year-old male pilot.
The pilot was forced to land the single engine light plane on a golf course at Liverpool about 2.30pm (AEST) on Sunday after its engine failed, police said.
No one was injured in the incident, including the 64-year-old male pilot.
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FORE! 
Did a good job, lucky there was a nice fairway to land on. Clipped a tree on the way in but didn't sustain too much damage. At least this time the media could correctly report it being a Cessna...
Did a good job, lucky there was a nice fairway to land on. Clipped a tree on the way in but didn't sustain too much damage. At least this time the media could correctly report it being a Cessna...
That's 3 incidents/accidents for the day. The ABC news started off 2nite with this one, a chopper prang with a woman hurt & an ultralight with a dead soul on board, ugly but so is the road toll !
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this has been one of the worst days for a long time, R44 down near Batemans bay, fatality in Tasmania, A gyro fatality in northern Qld, but some good news from the golf course. can even use the aircraft again, good job.
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Fairways
I sometimes look down on fairways when overflying golf course locations and wonder if I would be totally successful in landing a disable aircraft into there. They are not all that straight and long.
This aircraft was a C150. What if it had of been a Bo or another high performance machine? As in this matter, the fairway maybe all you have got amongst bush and houses.
This aircraft was a C150. What if it had of been a Bo or another high performance machine? As in this matter, the fairway maybe all you have got amongst bush and houses.
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What if it had of been a Bo or another high performance machine
"A69" there's some good good advice there but would be hard to manage under pressure whilst yr skidding along the ground pretty much out of control unless you mean whilst still airborne & that would take some courage
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Some years ago Exec's (of EN) AC50 hit the fairways at the Northcote Golf Links (just short of EN) after the pilot turned it into a glider. He almost got away with it 'till the airframe hit an embankment & crushed the fwd part of the fuse & instantly 2 left this world for hopefully a better place. VH-ALH if I recall, ugly:-(
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.Some years ago Exec's (of EN) AC50 hit the fairways at the Northcote Golf Links (just short of EN) after the pilot turned it into a glider. He almost got away with it 'till the airframe hit an embankment & crushed the fwd part of the fuse & instantly 2 left this world for hopefully a better place. VH-ALH if I recall, ugly:-(
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It was indeed. At the time of the accident it was no longer an Exec Airlines aircraft and was owned by the pilot's company Norfish, I think from memory it had only made a couple of trips to King Island before the accident. I may stand corrected but I think the cause of the accident was determined to be fuel exhaustion.
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I think the cause of the accident was determined to be fuel exhaustion.
Don't think there was an public report on it.
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Glad to hear it can be done
As a 50-hour student pilot out of YSBK I have very recently undergone my emergency procedures training. Taking off to the west out of Bankstown and doing simulated upwind engine failures, it's always struck me that one's options are pretty damn limited. Ditto when landing from the west. Hats off to this guy for landing safely and walking away.
Haven't been in or out of Bankstown for a bit, but from memory taking off to the east was more worrying for EFATO, all I remember being there is a few trotting tracks or car parks for factories.
"S8" as 'oze' said (sorry Oze I meant to say I worked for Excec's rather than the plane was theirs) he was indeed an airline driver with crays on board as well as a female companion. Fuel exhaustion was the cause. There was no fire & very little fuel was found in the fuel system. Strong Nth winds on the day I believe didn't help. The pilot over flew several dromes where a safe Ldg could have been effected prior to fuel exhaustion. Anyway that's that, he won't be the last pilot to do it. From high capacity jet liners to small home made flying contraptions planes have & will fall from the sky due human error.
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.........hahah very funny there 'glek' & a good lick up
but the pilot decided to remove the safety feature of the twin eng'ed craft by way of performing 'Bob Hoover' type maneuvers without the option of restarting the donks.
"IF" I had to make a dead stick ldg I'd rather be in a SE lighty anyway
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but the pilot decided to remove the safety feature of the twin eng'ed craft by way of performing 'Bob Hoover' type maneuvers without the option of restarting the donks."IF" I had to make a dead stick ldg I'd rather be in a SE lighty anyway
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