Mooney missing;
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement it was aware of the overdue Mooney M20 aircraft and had tasked the Westpac Rescue Helicopter and a search-and-rescue jet with the search
Not much to add at this time: the post below from Prune sums it up, in a nutshell.
Clearedtoreenter:- “Be that as it may. The tragedy here is that 2 more people are dead and another family is devastated. We have no idea why this has occurred and we should not speculate in this case. However, in the context of thread drift, because we have no idea at this stage if this is what has happened yet again here, why do Visual Flight Rules into Instrument Meteorological Conditions continue to occur in this country? Those accidents are almost always fatal and too many good pilots and their passengers continue to be lost."
"Not many pilots here have instrument qualifications in Australia and maybe the 2 hours they did on instruments during training many moons ago is just is not enough when the chips are down?"
Fair comment I’d say.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement it was aware of the overdue Mooney M20 aircraft and had tasked the Westpac Rescue Helicopter and a search-and-rescue jet with the search
Not much to add at this time: the post below from Prune sums it up, in a nutshell.
Clearedtoreenter:- “Be that as it may. The tragedy here is that 2 more people are dead and another family is devastated. We have no idea why this has occurred and we should not speculate in this case. However, in the context of thread drift, because we have no idea at this stage if this is what has happened yet again here, why do Visual Flight Rules into Instrument Meteorological Conditions continue to occur in this country? Those accidents are almost always fatal and too many good pilots and their passengers continue to be lost."
"Not many pilots here have instrument qualifications in Australia and maybe the 2 hours they did on instruments during training many moons ago is just is not enough when the chips are down?"
Fair comment I’d say.