Plane crash near Albury
 

Just heard on the news that a plane went down in the Burrumbuttock area around 5:40PM this afternoon. One feared dead. Anyone know anything more?

DF.

Minimum of details so far.
A172

Albury Incident
 

Listening to the local news it seems a " light aircraft " came in contact with power lines whilst on decent into a " paddock " ? Pilot deceased, no further report on other pax.

It is believed the aircraft struck powerlines about 5.40pm before coming down in a paddock about 100 metres from the Farmer’s Inn hotel.

A police media spokeswoman confirmed the pilot died.

Oh crap not another one.

Last light 5:47pm.

Yes, XXX, another one. RIP.


Burrumbuttock pilot killed in light plane crash | Goulburn Post

ATSB held an on site media briefing at 3:30. Two investigators are on site and they are requesting any eye-witnesses come forward.

Single pilot, no witnesses (atm), crash on approach. They may well end up being 100% correct, but unless there is an obvious structural failure in the wreckage that they can't attribute to the impact, I'm pretty sure they wont reconstruct any further than 'pilot error' on this one.

There have been too many people dying lately, it's starting to make me feel a bit sick.

Rego was VH-TRS

:sad:

Unfortunately another aviator is no longer with us.

Looks like pilot is a local so probably has landed there a hundred times without incident. Very sad for his family and the local residents of Burrumbuttock.

on tonight's telly it was listed as a crop duster crashed near albury. :ugh:

if VH-TRS is correct it was a cessna 182 registered to Kristen Barr of burrumbuttock

The pilot was reported to have just taken off from his private strip which was .5 kms from the crash site. The engine was reported to have been spluttering and surging as it flew low over houses and properties prior to crashing.

The registered owner was the pilot. Confirmed on win news.

ATSB report has issued. An accident that need not have happened.


https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/573804...4131_final.pdf

That makes for uncomfortable reading.:(

Admittedly a fairly simple accident, but I thought it was a good report, fairly direct and without the verbiage that so often clutters these things.

Totally stupid waste of a life and a good aeroplane
 

Sadly this is the third accident report that I have read in the last 18 months that has been a result of pilots doing totally stupid illegal low flying resulting in fatalities.

Low flying without the appropriate training and approvals is absolutely stupid and dangerous, that's why CASA have rules in relation to this activity.

If you accidentally fly below the minimum altitude by 100 feet or maybe 300 feet(?) who cares, and will CASA prosecute you? Probably no, as the evidence generally would be inaccurate in terms of a potential prosecution. However if you collided with something on or attached to the ground, you are going to feel some pain, not only from CASA, but also financially as a result of the damages you have caused (forget about the injuries, you would totally deserve them!) - if you are lucky enough to survive.

so, seeing as this keeps happening, the rules obviously dont work. and no, we dont need more rules, as this has been proven to not be a deterrrant to these actions. we need better training and a better attitude to flying.. until attitudes change towards low level flight, im sure in the not to distant future, there will be another report like this one just with different location and different names..

If I'm not mistaken, Raaus are pushing 12 fatalities this year of which *most* were not mechanically induced. It's the season not to be jolly.

It doesn't seem to matter how many rules there are, people will still break them. It's not like there aren't penalties for doing it either. It will take a lot to change it and I'm fresh out of ideas on how you do it quickly or easily.

Rules are in place to keep the honest on the straight and narrow - in a round about way, may not happen all the time though due to mistakes and unintentional errors.

Rules will never prevent stupidity. If one has the intent to carry out a dangerous act, rules mean nothing until the person has to face the music - if they should survive.

Regulators and law enforcement agencies can not regulate for acts of stupidity.......

It depends on your definition of the above...

Is formating on and colliding with another aircraft a mistake or unintentional?
Is doing a wingover into cloud and hitting a mountain a mistake?
What about turning back after an engine failure, is that a mistake?