Light plane crash in Canley Vale

[Robert Zweck]

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.

[Matt Coughran]

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....

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?

[Andrew P]

Matt

don't take her words literally, she is using them as an idiom

[Bruce Bramwell]

Originally Posted by Matt Coughran

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

[Jason H]

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

[Robert Zweck]

Is the former Schofields area still around or is that covered with houses?

[Nigel C]

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.

[Chris B.]

Originally Posted by Jason H

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.

[Philip Argy]

I think a twin engined aircraft suffering separate engine power failures or other problems is likely having some kind of fuel problem. Obviously we have to await the investigation but I can't see any harm in discussing here as a technological matter what sorts of problems can cause a twin engine aircraft to lose power or experience power surges on both engines a short time apart (whether or not that is what caused the crash on this occasion).

[Robert Zweck]

They talk about the dangers of light aircraft airports yet, in the same breath these critics conveniently forget about all the people who were killed on NSW roads last week.........by cars, a far more lethal weapon.