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Old 15th June 2010, 10:46 AM
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http://www.news.com.au/national/ligh...-1225879744477
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Old 15th June 2010, 10:51 AM
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From another forum.

According to ATSB -

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The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) was advised of an aircraft accident involving a Piper Aircraft Mojave aircraft, registered VH-PGW, this morning. The aircraft had two pilots on board and had recently departed from Bankstown Aerodrome, New South Wales. The pilot reported to air traffic control that the aircraft had sustained an engine failure and would be returning to Bankstown. Shortly after the aircraft impacted terrain in the vicinity of Canley Vale Road and Sackville Roads, Canley Vale Heights.

Aircraft operated by Airtex.
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Old 15th June 2010, 11:01 AM
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If Hoxton Park was still open, I wonder if that could have been one of his options?

Next thing we hear will be the closure of Camden.
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Old 15th June 2010, 11:36 AM
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What a tragic event. My condolences to the family/families involved in this. By the looks of all reports the Pilot did his best to land the aircraft safely.

But also reading on one of the new reports some people really don't know anything about aircraft....

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Ms Weir said that she walked to the crash area to find out what was happening and smelt petrol fumes.

"We were saying earlier that planes fly very low over this area," she said. "The Bankstown Airport is not far away and we always thought this was an accident waiting to happen."
An Accident waiting to happen? Since when did a plane flying low to land/take off at an airport posed such a massive risk that she knew it was going to happen?
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Old 15th June 2010, 11:40 AM
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Old 15th June 2010, 11:54 AM
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An Accident waiting to happen? Since when did a plane flying low to land/take off at an airport posed such a massive risk that she knew it was going to happen?
Why did you build a home right next door to a airport
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Old 15th June 2010, 12:01 PM
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I was listening to the tower at the time, and they had stopped departures for the aircraft to return to BK. He had been cleared to land on 11 (straight in) and everything seemed normal, until he reported he couldn't maintain altitude.

It surely was chilling to hear him frantically look for a landing site. Tower advised him of the M7 as a possible landing spot too.

I'm interested to know how a multi engine aircraft could not maintain altitude
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Old 15th June 2010, 12:44 PM
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Is the former Schofields area still around or is that covered with houses?
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Old 15th June 2010, 01:06 PM
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It's there, but not in any real state for use as far as I know. It's part of the University of Western Sydney Hawkesbury campus these days.
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Old 15th June 2010, 09:47 PM
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I'm interested to know how a multi engine aircraft could not maintain altitude
There are many reasons a multi engined aircraft cannot maintain altitude. But for obvious reasons I will not post up incase the media are lurking about and we don't even know what has happened here. So rather than speculate I'll leave it up to the ATSB why a multi engined aircraft could not maintain altitude.
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