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Old 17th Jan 2020, 05:59
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Baron accident at Maitland

Anyone know anything about a Baron involved in a landing accident at Maitland on Tuesday? Rumoured to be a Little Wings flight with passengers from Inverell but nothing in the mainstream media or on ATSB web site.
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Old 17th Jan 2020, 19:44
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VH-NSK. Hit skippy on rollout
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Old 18th Jan 2020, 00:26
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NSK is registered to Little Wings and FlightAware shows it was inbound from Inverell so, presumably, had passengers on board.
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Old 18th Jan 2020, 22:19
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A D55 met the same fate there in late ‘93.

A group of Roos bounded to the runway edge and thankfully stopped just as I rotated in a Cheiftain about a year earlier. Almost comical looking back, recalling about a dozen furry faces watching me go by. A bit like the crowd at the tennis!

I guess they still haven’t solved the problem?
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NSK was certainly a good flying machine.

Probably 50 years young now. It enjoyed a good run with Nicholas Skyway's at Moorabbin for a couple of decades. Prior to that it was almost demolished in wheels up landing that went wrong.. I think at the time it was registered VH-E?? but reborn and re-registered.
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Old 19th Jan 2020, 11:18
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We clobbered a skippy at Maitland with the Titan prop about 2014.
Only just got him - no blood and guts - no body and no damage, just a tuft of fur on the prop. 3-4 sectors later we had lost the vac pump and the starter motor on that side and a bulk strip and propeller strip showed we clobbered him quite hard.

About 2016 a Joey hopped out at the Conquest and hit the R/H MLG door. The door put 2 punctures in the under skin of the wing (and the fuel tank).

Our clients now prefer to not use Maitland...
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VH-NSK had been at Moorabbin owned by Flight Avionics for the past decade. It was a pretty sweet machine, fitted with all the latest gear. I hope there's not too much damage.
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Old 21st Jan 2020, 08:47
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Heard that the aircraft is a write-off.
Another example of the CASA rules for community service flights having absolutely no effect on accidents and incidents in this sector.
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Originally Posted by Lyco Ming
Heard that the aircraft is a write-off.
Another example of the CASA rules for community service flights having absolutely no effect on accidents and incidents in this sector.
Can you explain what you mean by this comment?
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Old 22nd Jan 2020, 11:39
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A couple rounds from a rifle fired off into the air usually scares them away.

But of course pilots can't carry guns because they're too dangerous.
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A couple rounds from a rifle fired off into the air usually scares them away.

But of course pilots can't carry guns because they're too dangerous.
... and they keep hitting bits of the aircraft when they fire them out the window! lol. Also hard to fire out the window when you’re doing your prec search.
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