208 down Sydney Harbour
Evidently an "inflatable part" of the aircraft "burst". Probably missing some bolts. Anyway, it's about time they did away with inflatable parts.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/ns...f-a7a8970ecc7c
https://www.9news.com.au/national/ns...f-a7a8970ecc7c
Last edited by AnotherFSO; 25th Jan 2024 at 01:46.
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Oh, it didn’t have one of those inflatable pilots did it. I saw one in a movie once.
bur seriously, perhaps corrosion in one of the float support spars. That let go under the forces generated from the take off,
bur seriously, perhaps corrosion in one of the float support spars. That let go under the forces generated from the take off,
Inflatable part might be an educated journalist's translation of 'float' perhaps?
I was told a story of a Beaver flight out of Rose Bay taking off on New Years Day (70's or 80's?). The guy who told me the story said he had just got on the 'step' and the aircraft started severely yawing. So severe that it terrified him to get it into the air so he headed for the beach and either got there or almost got there by wacking in rudder and aileron to keep the thing sort of straight.
What they later found was a champagne bottle had pierced the float and punctured a number of baffles inside it allowing the entire float to immediately fill with water. Not suggesting this is the cause, but it did get me thinking ever since. How many bottles would be floating in Sydney Harbour on any given day?
I was told a story of a Beaver flight out of Rose Bay taking off on New Years Day (70's or 80's?). The guy who told me the story said he had just got on the 'step' and the aircraft started severely yawing. So severe that it terrified him to get it into the air so he headed for the beach and either got there or almost got there by wacking in rudder and aileron to keep the thing sort of straight.
What they later found was a champagne bottle had pierced the float and punctured a number of baffles inside it allowing the entire float to immediately fill with water. Not suggesting this is the cause, but it did get me thinking ever since. How many bottles would be floating in Sydney Harbour on any given day?
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With the amount of rain Sydney has had recently, I would say the debris in Sydney harbour would be higher than normal. We even had warnings not to swim at beaches due to the runoff and the associated crap that gets washed into the sea. Sewerage included. And with New Years only recently having been celebrated I guess a few champagne bottles would have made their way into the water as well.
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Not to mention what used to be referred to openly as 'Straya Day'....
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Do you mean the anniversary of the day the Australian Citizenship Act, 1948 took legal effect (26 January 1949) and our forbears ceased being British subjects and started carrying Australian passports?
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"created Australian citizenship and the conditions by which it could be acquired. The main provisions of the Act were that:
- All Australian-born and other British subjects resident in Australia for the five years prior to 26 January 1949 were automatically Australian citizens
- Anyone born in Australia on or after that date was automatically an Australian citizen
- Anyone defined as an Australian citizen also became or retained the status of British subject."
To clarify, we weren't British subjects but we had the 'status' of British subjects.
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I was on the Manly ferry about then and missed this. Hope all are OK.
yes all ok, passengers and pilot. Plane has been craned onto a barge and removed. CEO of the company saying it hit either an object or an unusually large wave…… obviously an official inquiry will get to the actual cause.
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Your ABC tax dollars at work.
"[The plane] went up on a very sharp angle and just came back down again and bellyflopped, then you know, had a broken wing, like a gull," Mr Bass said.
"I thought [the pilot] was actually asking us to get into the water and was worried about my outfit and my bag," Ms Andrews said.
Seaplane crashes into Sydney Harbour near Shark Island after aborted take-off (msn.com)
"[The plane] went up on a very sharp angle and just came back down again and bellyflopped, then you know, had a broken wing, like a gull," Mr Bass said.
"I thought [the pilot] was actually asking us to get into the water and was worried about my outfit and my bag," Ms Andrews said.
Seaplane crashes into Sydney Harbour near Shark Island after aborted take-off (msn.com)
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Seaplane crashes into Sydney Harbour near Shark Island after aborted take-off
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There’s an interesting thread floating around elsewhere where there’s a picture of the brand new red coloured port authority vessel pulled up next to the 208 saying how they were first on scene for the rescue.
However it was a privately owned Brig inflatable that took all the passengers on board, long before the port authority arrived on scene. It was later retrieved by a private vessel.
Seems the port authority were trying to get some cheap publicity to justify their large new purchase…. and here we all were thinking it was just aviation that was political.
However it was a privately owned Brig inflatable that took all the passengers on board, long before the port authority arrived on scene. It was later retrieved by a private vessel.
Seems the port authority were trying to get some cheap publicity to justify their large new purchase…. and here we all were thinking it was just aviation that was political.