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Group: aus.aviation · Group Profile
Author: Matt Richards
Date: Sep 14, 2008 22:23

"Sunny" gmail.com> wrote in message
news:G7lzk.36432$IK1.12577@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>
> "Sylvia Else" wrote in message
> news:48cdd81a$0$4448$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
>> Crash Lander wrote:
>>> Was due to land at about lunchtime, and nobody thought about looking
>>> for it until 6:30pm?
>>> Crash Lander
>>
>> No flight plan filed.
>>
>> So only when the relative became sufficiently concerned about the
>> non-arrival could a search be started. It isn't clear from the story
>> whether the relative was expecting to meet the aircraft at the airfield,
>> or was simply expecting the occupants to arrive somewhere else at some
>> time.
>>
>> Sylvia.
>
> Just announced on 4BC that "light plane wreckage has been found 55Km North
> East of Scone NSW."
>

"A search helicopter found the wreckage at Hanging Rock, about 55 kilometres
north-east of Scone, about noon today. An NRMA CareFlight spokesman said the
plane had been completely destroyed on impact when it crashed on a peak in
the Great Dividing Range, about 1500 metres above sea level."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/three-found-dead-in-plane-wreck/2008/09/15/1221330718097...

Matt.
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