09-26-2017, 02:16 PM
(09-26-2017, 11:24 AM)Peetwo Wrote: Breaking news: Fatal accident near Jimboomba QLD.
Via QLD Times:
Quote:BREAKING: Two dead as light plane crashes in Scenic Rim
26th Sep 2017 10:32 AM | Updated: 11:07 AM
Two people have been killed in a light plane crash at Allenview, near Jimboomba. Credit: Nine News Queensland
by Helen Spelitis
POLICE are working to contact the families of two men killed in a light plane crash.
The plane came down in a grassed area at Allenview, near Jimboomba about 9.45am.
Emergency services were alerted to the incident by a member of the public who sounded the alarm just before 10am.
The aircraft is a Diamond Da 40 and was significantly damaged in the crash landing.
Emergency services are still on the scene.
A Queensland Ambulance spokesperson said the plane came down on a grassed area and multiple units responded.
"No one required transport," the QAS spokesperson said.
Update: Via SBS & Youtube.
Quote:Mayday call attempted before fatal crash
Two men are dead after a light plane crashed on a turf farm south of Brisbane. (AAP)
An instructor and his student are dead after a light plane crash in southeast Queensland.
A mayday call was made but not completed by the pilot of a training flight which crashed into a paddock south of Brisbane, killing two men aboard.
The instructor and his student died when their single-engine, four-seat Diamond DA-40 crashed into a turf farm at Allenview, near Beaudesert, on Tuesday morning.
A distress call was sent from the aircraft but not finished, a Civil Aviation Safety Authority spokesman said.
It's believed the training flight took off from Archerfield airport.
Efforts are under way to formally identify the men, and police are still trying to contact the victims' families.
Teams of Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigators are on their way from Brisbane and Canberra.
They will spend days examining the site of the crash and interviewing witnesses and are hoping to retrieve flight data from recording devices attached to avionics.
Photos from the scene show the broken plane lying on a large expanse of grass but it is too early to speculate about what caused the fatal crash, the ATSB and CASA say.
It is the second fatal aircraft crash in southern Queensland in a week.
Experienced instructor Jeremy Thompson and his 60-year-old student Norbert Gross died when their glider nosedived 15 metres and crashed into a field near the runway at the Darling Downs Soaring Club last Tuesday.
Conditions were fine that day and Gliding Federation of Australia operations executive manager Christopher Thorpe believes the pilot must have suffered a medical event.
Following investigations into the Allenview crash the ATSB will prepare a report, which is expected to take months to complete.
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