Albany WA crash 24/10/17
 

Looks like another one down...

Light plane crash reported in Western Australia's South West - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Reported as another 210.
Pilot dead near Albany after plane crashes in dense, inaccessible bushland - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

I knew thia pilot well. Any more information available? Was it purely structural failure or was it a combination of factors?

Last I heard, heavy machinery was required to even get access to the crash site. That was last night, so there is probably more to it now.

Why do you ask this question? Is there some indication the aircraft failed structurally before impact?

I thought this was related to the one in Darwin. Heck that's several crashed days apart :(

Two C210's & a C310. :(

DF.

And in today's The Australian's joke of an Aviation section; an article entitled "Ice blamed for fatal plunge"- rather ambiguous, lazy reporting or was Ms Ironside being clever?

The first paragraph is a gem of misleading, innacurate and sensationalist reporting:

"A pilot was who was high on ice flew his light plane in such a way that the right wing broke off, resulting in the aircraft plunging to the ground..."

Now the report, while noting the presence of methyl amphetamine in the pilot's blood, does not state, or even imply, that the pilot was "high on ice" . While they go to great length examining the possible reasons for the inflight break-up, they report this as undetermined. It does not state the break-up was a result of pilot input.

I commented on this (I subscribe to The Australian online) but my input was rejected. Possibly they didn't like my opening line asking Ms Ironside if she was a graduate of the Byron Bailey School of Accident Reporting?

Very sloppy reporting, I think.

The report contains this line. Interestingly, from a third party source, I've been advised that the first pilot on the scene - a well qualified and highly regarded individual - noted the presence of two large wedge-tail eagles circling around overhead.

Yes I did, thank you SQ7700.

So how do you get, and presumably concur with Ms Ironside's writings, that the pilot was so high on ice that he ripped the wings off?? I'm not for one second condoning his (or anyone else's) drug taking, but if you were a member of his family wouldn't you find that article just a little offensive, as well as being unsupported by what the report states?

Let's be clear here, I have little doubt that the presence of Ice in the pilot's blood could well have been a factor in this accident; my objection is in the way it was reported. All she had to do was insert the adverb "possibly" , or at a stretch even "probably", into her report and there could have been no objection. As it stands, it was crass journalism.

There are times when I, somewhat cynically I admit, tend to agree with a view held by a former Mayor of Port Lincoln South Australia who many times stated that all those illegal drugs should be made freely available to those who wish to consume them......'at ten times the lethal dose!'

Problem would be rapidly 'solvered!':E

Only problem with that 'solution' is just how many innocent lives would be lost along with the Darwin candidates.:=

You'd be surprised at who uses currently illegal drugs. It isn't always ice crazed homeless junkies injecting stuff on street corners. Doctors, Lawyers, Business people, even conservative middle class suburbanites (especially in Sydney) partake in the frequent use of cocaine. It'd probably surprise you who does use it.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/...07-p50kyt.html

Ice is a different matter, a more dangerous matter, but each substance should be considered individually. Obviously it should be illegal to be under the influence of a substance prior to operating, but to say every illegal drug user deserves to overdose at ten times the lethal limit is nonsense. It's illegal to be under the influence of alcohol before operating but there's no calls for fatal alcohol poisoning for alcoholics is there?

If there are substance addiction issues treat them as a health matter not a criminal one. That just drives it underground and makes it harder to treat.

Correct, but some just get shown the door here (once they got caught) and then get a job overseas....

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