Pilots a little too involved in the Festival
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Pilots a little too involved in the Festival
Seriously, how would one manage this in an ideal world?
I'll bet the local SES and CFA didn't have this one in their disaster planning scenarios!
(It was on approach to land)
A small passenger plane has crashed into a ferris wheel at a festival on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
Police say the plane crashed shortly after 10.00am (AEST) this morning at the Old Bar Festival at Taree.
Local officers say at least two people are trapped in the plane with children stuck on the the ferris wheel.
The plane is leaking aviation fuel and emergency services have been spraying the plane and wheel with foam.
The plane was taking off from the grass airstrip and failed to get enough altitude to clear the ferris wheel, which was recently placed at the southern end of the strip for the local festival.
Flyers from around the country have come to the area for the long weekend.
Plane crashes into NSW ferris wheel - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I'll bet the local SES and CFA didn't have this one in their disaster planning scenarios!
(It was on approach to land)
A small passenger plane has crashed into a ferris wheel at a festival on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
Police say the plane crashed shortly after 10.00am (AEST) this morning at the Old Bar Festival at Taree.
Local officers say at least two people are trapped in the plane with children stuck on the the ferris wheel.
The plane is leaking aviation fuel and emergency services have been spraying the plane and wheel with foam.
The plane was taking off from the grass airstrip and failed to get enough altitude to clear the ferris wheel, which was recently placed at the southern end of the strip for the local festival.
Flyers from around the country have come to the area for the long weekend.
Plane crashes into NSW ferris wheel - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
(It was on approach to land)
The plane was taking off from the grass airstrip and failed to get enough altitude to clear the ferris wheel
I wonder who was responsible for the placement of the Ferris Wheel and doing any calculations on the infringements of the departure/arrival fans, and/or issuing notams, or is that sort of thing not required in OZ?
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TAREE (YTRE)
C52/11 REVIEW C42/11
OBST LGT ON BCST STATION 2RE NOT AVBL
PSN S31 55.6 E152 27.9 APRX 3NM SW OF TAREE AD
SFC TO 339FT AMSL
FROM 08 312224 TO 12 010400 EST
C56/11 REVIEW C55/11
GRASS RWY 12/30 NOT AVBL
DUE SOFT WET SFC
FROM 09 282025 TO 10 122100
C52/11 REVIEW C42/11
OBST LGT ON BCST STATION 2RE NOT AVBL
PSN S31 55.6 E152 27.9 APRX 3NM SW OF TAREE AD
SFC TO 339FT AMSL
FROM 08 312224 TO 12 010400 EST
C56/11 REVIEW C55/11
GRASS RWY 12/30 NOT AVBL
DUE SOFT WET SFC
FROM 09 282025 TO 10 122100
And how do you not miss a ferris wheel. Ferris wheel? What ferris wheel?
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I've come across this a few times, arrriving at an airfield only to hear an aircraft operating from a grass strip that is NOTAM'ed as shut. On one occasion, I spoke to the pilot on the ground asking if he was aware that the runway was NOTAM'd shut, and he simply replied that he was a local so knows the runway condition better! Ha, good luck with that argument with the insurance company if something goes wrong and you make a claim!
Hopefully no one is badly hurt. Seem like the pilots will be extricated shortly. Taree wind was NW'ly but plane was taking off to the South so wonder how much downwind component (if any) they had?
Amazing stuff!!! Amazing that no one was killed. One obviously wouldn't hit anything whilst flying when they could see it coming so perhaps with a high nose attitude during the climb out the pilotsimplydidn't see it until too late.
Never the less excitment at a country fair:-)
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Never the less excitment at a country fair:-)
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Another report with a different picture:
Four freed after ultra-light crashes into ferris wheel
Four freed after ultra-light crashes into ferris wheel
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One has to wonder about flying over public gatherings with regard to the regulation on such. Just when RAA think all is good and ask for more privileges, someone comes and does something dumb.
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And the problem is a single bad decision by one pilot often gets applied to RAA as a whole... It isn't like everytime there is a GA crash we hear "Oh those bloody useless PPL holders....."
It isn't like everytime there is a GA crash we hear "Oh those bloody useless PPL holders....."
And maybe the blokes flying this aeroplane hold or have held a PPL or higher, like a large percentage of RAA members.
Seriously, now that kosher statistics are becoming available, there is little to separate the accident rates between low end GA and RAA, and the difference is in RAA's favour. Something I put down to the greater currency of many RAA pilots, v. the "average" private pilot (regardless of license held) who apparently does less than 10 hours per year.
Tootle pip!!
