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Tim Holding Mountain Rescue
Herald Sun quote -
A private aircraft, not related to the search, spotted Mr Holding last night while he was wearing a headlamp given to him by his partner for his birthday last month. Deputy Comissioner Kieran Walshe said he could not discuss the use of the aircraft because of security reasons. The plane had spied a possible camp site overnight, narrowing the search area this morning. A Victoria Police spokeswoman said the plane used was not a police plane but she could not comment further on the aircraft. A police chopper winched the 37-year-old to safety from Mount Feathertop about 10am. Any clues on the 'secret security sensitive' aircraft??? |
Heard the super secret security sensitive aircraft was a news helicopter!:ugh:
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Yeah, I read it was the Ch7 chopper.
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The helicopters were flying this morning, not last night.
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Okay...Who found Timmy?
This is interesting...(my bolds)
Minister reunited with parents, partner after dramatic air rescue Deputy Comissioner Kieran Walshe said he could not discuss the use of the aircraft because of security reasons. The plane had spied a possible camp site overnight, narrowing the search area this morning. A Victoria Police spokeswoman said the plane used was not a police plane but she could not comment further on the aircraft. |
Could it have been the AMSA Dornier? Whatever it was it worked.:D
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some reports said it was an AFP plane. do the AFP even operate aircraft?
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There were reports it was Channel 7 chopper. Can't verify it.
That might explain the reluctance of the walloper to talk if his blokes didn't find the lost pollie. |
P3. $40K an hour...Not to be used for every Tom, Dick or Harry.
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So is he going to make a donation for his rescue?
Usually the pollies are the first to call for such a thing when someone is in the same position. Will be interesting to see what happens :cool: |
The link quoted in post #1 now says:
The Channel Seven news crew, flying overhead in a chopper, was the first to spot Mr Holding. |
Story around the traps last year was that the AFP was heavily modifying an aircraft for surveillance roles - rumour was it is a Grand Caravan and was decked out with some pretty high end FLIR and so on. I do know that the AFP were flight testing an aircraft as of mid-last year. Not out of the question to bring it down from Canberra (or wherever) for a bit of operational testing under the cover of darkness!
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Why do that when the PAW has FLIR on the Dauphin ? .. or, at least, they used to have the installation ?
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Wasn't that black and red Caravan that landed at YSSY yesterday was it? (probably wasn't but it had a great looking paint scheme)
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Channel 9 News just stated that it was their chopper that spotted him!
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Isn't that Black Toyota's van out of Toowoomba?
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Channel 9 News just stated that it was their chopper that spotted him! |
It's the Harold Holt retrieval squadron running a little over budget, and a tad late:E
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