Accident Kooweerup
 

Radio news reports a fatal accident at Kooweerup today, April 4. The report has a helmet striking the prop and the aircraft then crashing. One dead.
A pusher aircraft perhaps?

Weight-shift trike apparently.

https://www.police.vic.gov.au/man-ki...aircraft-crash

At Aardel Port (Koo Wee Rup) airfield they often have get-togethers on long weekends with those little trikes that literally fold up into a suitcase. They look like fun and are great on a nice still morning.

This article has a video showing the aircraft on the ground.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/pl...3-aebff061e9a5

No evidence is presented for the helmet theory.

Huh? She literally says "it is believed his helmet has come loose and caused the aircraft to crash"

So a newsreader saying "it is believed" suddenly becomes evidence?

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....666c5cbbfe.jpg
Downed ultralight trike

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7928b03e10.jpg
Wider view at Koo Wee Rup airfield

A later news item (Perth) reported that the helmet was not done up, it flew off in slipstream, hit the pusher prop, which disintegrated and took out adjacent wing, causing........

I guess he won't be doing it again.
Sad if true.

No.

So a "Rumour Network" has suddenly become a courtroom?

Hatches, Harness, Helmet......

Perhaps it didn’t help that he wasn’t the owner
of the aircraft and may have not been fully familiar with the equipment being used.

Very tragic-( the risks of flying are always there especially in these types of contraptions. RIP.