The 38-year-old pilot of a Christmas Eve light plane crash in Northern New south Wales is recovering in hospital.
The wreckage of the single-engine Cessna was found on Christmas Day, upside down in trees north-west of Merriwa in the Great Dividing Range.
The plane’s pilot, Sydney auctioneer Scott Kennedy-Green, was winched to safety but his 32-year-old brother-in-law, Matthew Green, died at the scene.
A pilot who survived a light plane crash on Christmas eve is “devastated” that his brother-in-law died in the accident, family say.
Matthew Green, 32, a NSW builder, was killed when the plane in which he was a passenger crashed into the side of a steep ravine in rugged bushland in the NSW Upper Hunter Valley on Wednesday.
His brother-in-law Scott Kennedy-Green, 38, piloted the single-engine Cessna and remains in a stable condition in a Sydney hospital.
A trip to see Santa saved a mother and baby who would otherwise have been home when two training flights collided, sending a plane crashing into the family’s new Sydney house, killing two female pilots.
A New Zealand air force plane is searching the Pacific Ocean for 29 Taiwanese fishermen after their burnt-out boat was found adrift north of Fiji.
The men have been missing since October 28.
The New Zealand air force says the search was launched after the Taiwanese long line boat was spotted with no-one on board and all its life rafts gone.
The Australian Navy has rescued 12 people from a sinking boat near Ashmore Reef off the West Australian coast.
The stationary boat was spotted by a Coastwatch plane late Wednesday about 80 nautical miles southeast of the reef.
The navy’s HMAS Ararat was sent to investigate, and found the boat was sinking fast because of a hole in the hull and its engine damaged beyond repair.
The 10 people and two crew members on board are being taken to Christmas Island.
A QantasLink plane made an emergency landing at Brisbane Airport last night, after smoke filled the cockpit.
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The Dash-8 aircraft, en route from Roma in central Queensland, touched down at 7.23pm, less than five minutes after the pilot contacted Air Traffic Control to request the emergency landing.
Qantas Airways Ltd., Australia’s largest carrier, said two of its Boeing Co. 747 aircraft were damaged in a collision while being towing at a maintenance base.
“Both aircraft did sustain some damage and the extent of this is being assessed,” Qantas said in an e-mailed statement. “We have stood the individuals involved down pending a full investigation into this incident.”
Two people have escaped injury when their light plane crash-landed at an airport in the Northern Territory.
It’s believed the landing gear failed to engage and the single-engine aircraft, with two men on board, crash-landed at Gapuwiyak Airport in Arnhem Land about 4pm (CST), NT Police said.
The plane landed on the airstrip, ran off the runway and struck a boundary fence.
NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga – A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck beneath the South Pacific Ocean on Sunday, shaking buildings in the nearest country, Tonga, for about two minutes, officials and residents said. No damage or injuries were reported.
The earthquake, which hit shortly after 5 a.m. local time, was felt in the archipelago’s southern islands and shook the capital, Nuku’alofa, residents said.
Australia - An Emirates flight from Australia to Dubai was aborted and the aircraft returned to Perth after a burning smell was detected, the airline said Thursday.
All passengers on flight EK425 disembarked normally after the plane landed safely and would be rescheduled on another Emirates flight later in the day, a spokesman said in a statement.
About 120 passengers were reportedly on the Airbus A340.
