Skippers Aviation Cessna Conquest makes forced landing on highway
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Perhaps Eddie Dean could expand on that. Is this what he saw / didn't see? Or is it what he was told as he passed by?
I can't imagine that he'd have sat there for any length of time to definitively say that it didn't happen.
I doubt that a Conquest would block that section of road for a Tojo off a station.
I can't imagine that he'd have sat there for any length of time to definitively say that it didn't happen.
I doubt that a Conquest would block that section of road for a Tojo off a station.
Oh so you were with the plane the whole night and until highway departure the next afternoon?
Fuel and engineers drive from Broome to site, plane makes a miraculous recovery and takes off for Broome. Two empty drums make the trip back to Broome to continue life as waste fuel slops.
Oh so you were with the plane the whole night and until highway departure the next afternoon?
Fuel and engineers drive from Broome to site, plane makes a miraculous recovery and takes off for Broome. Two empty drums make the trip back to Broome to continue life as waste fuel slops.
Fuel and engineers drive from Broome to site, plane makes a miraculous recovery and takes off for Broome. Two empty drums make the trip back to Broome to continue life as waste fuel slops.
Since he's off a nearby station, he may not be able to reply immediately.
Arcane phrasing, but I'm pretty sure he's saying that no fuel was uploaded up until or while he was at the aircraft.
So how deeply is Skippers politically connected?
Can we expect a similar treatment to that of Pel Air in the wake of the NGA ditching?
If it’s fuel exhaustion or starvation, what’s the issue other than embarrassment?
Can we expect a similar treatment to that of Pel Air in the wake of the NGA ditching?
If it’s fuel exhaustion or starvation, what’s the issue other than embarrassment?
Yeah, I agree, this is BS - what's the story?
No requirement for an AD by CASA.
So it can only be a run of the mill issue!
Or we will have been informed of a important safety issue by the authorities by now.
If it was not a gas problem we all need to know by now as it is a serious problem and keeping secret's can cost lives - and that's on you!
So it can only be a run of the mill issue!
Or we will have been informed of a important safety issue by the authorities by now.
If it was not a gas problem we all need to know by now as it is a serious problem and keeping secret's can cost lives - and that's on you!
Did the media get to interview any of the pax for a blow by blow description of the last few minutes of the flight ?? (Radio comms or PIC comments etc).
I don't watch TV, nor will I pay a shekel to bypass their paywall to the clickbait stories, so if there was an article I'm not aware of it. Cheers.
I don't watch TV, nor will I pay a shekel to bypass their paywall to the clickbait stories, so if there was an article I'm not aware of it. Cheers.
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Fuel exhaustion
An acquaintance with connections to Skippers engineering has stated that the aircraft ran out of fuel.
The fuel predicament was known to the pilot when passing Derby, but he chose to press on, in the desperate hope of making it to Broome.
The fuel predicament was known to the pilot when passing Derby, but he chose to press on, in the desperate hope of making it to Broome.
In Australia the single biggest cause of hull loss of aircraft flown by holders of CPLs and ATPLs is fuel exhaustion or starvation.
If fuel exhaustion or starvation is the cause of the forced landing in this case, it’s a sad indictment of the busted system that the circumstances can’t be acknowledged as being what they are, with everyone learning (again) the importance of fuel system knowledge, fuel planning and airborne fuel management (and avoiding ‘get-home-itis’ and commercial pressures).
Or maybe it was just a landing because a POB had to do an really big poo...
If fuel exhaustion or starvation is the cause of the forced landing in this case, it’s a sad indictment of the busted system that the circumstances can’t be acknowledged as being what they are, with everyone learning (again) the importance of fuel system knowledge, fuel planning and airborne fuel management (and avoiding ‘get-home-itis’ and commercial pressures).
Or maybe it was just a landing because a POB had to do an really big poo...
In Australia the single biggest cause of hull loss of aircraft flown by holders of CPLs and ATPLs is fuel exhaustion or starvation.
If fuel exhaustion or starvation is the cause of the forced landing in this case, it’s a sad indictment of the busted system that the circumstances can’t be acknowledged as being what they are, with everyone learning (again) the importance of fuel system knowledge, fuel planning and airborne fuel management (and avoiding ‘get-home-itis’ and commercial pressures).
Or maybe it was just a landing because a POB had to do an really big poo...
If fuel exhaustion or starvation is the cause of the forced landing in this case, it’s a sad indictment of the busted system that the circumstances can’t be acknowledged as being what they are, with everyone learning (again) the importance of fuel system knowledge, fuel planning and airborne fuel management (and avoiding ‘get-home-itis’ and commercial pressures).
Or maybe it was just a landing because a POB had to do an really big poo...
The next is I assume on the list of hull damage biggest list, is no rubber in contact with ground on landings.
2 known problems and where is CAsA on these issues?
Your assumption is incorrect. Wheels ups are not the second biggest cause of hull loss of aircraft being flown by CPLs or ATPLs in Australia.
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Eddie Dean,
You made this statement:
Were you at the aircraft the entire time it was on the highway?
You made this statement:
There was no fuel uplifted on the highway. Unless of course there is a secret squirrel method of doing this.
At post #80 Eddie said:
I’ll give folding money to charity if Eddie was anywhere near the aircraft at the time. The “duff gen” I have is that Eddie’s running interference.
Working on a cattle station nearby, happened to be on the Highway when the blokes from Skippers arrived.
Be at north west air spares sometime today. Surely they will know the duff gen on this.
Be at north west air spares sometime today. Surely they will know the duff gen on this.
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Eight pages of this yet already, and most posts full of conjecture, allegations without much, if any, hard evidence behind them! Plus statements purporting 'facts' without anything to back them up etc etc. 
Tailwheel; you wanna make with the padlock?
Tailwheel; you wanna make with the padlock?
100% too much air in the hydrocarbon supply system. Can guarantee the only log that was updated at the scene was the flight log - fuel added. Nil maintenance. Nil engine setups. Nil cowls off. Nil defects evident.
And as I said previously the ATSB initial report stating engine failure if I recall is utter BS. The engines did not fail at all poor things - I believe they need fuel to function. Someone please come out, state what happened and put us out of our misery. Do a Steve Smith for goodness sake.
