| Re: Sydney plane disappears into thin air |
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Group: aus.aviation · Group Profile
Author: gregggregg Date: Sep 15, 2008 03:46
TacAN wrote:
> From Sydney to Brisbane in controlled airspace - you don't need a flight
> plan???
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No flight plan is required TO BE LODGED. A prudent pilot would certainly
plan and then implement a SAR time - especially if forced to transit
such tiger country in pretty ordinary conditions.
Better still, a prudent pilot would avoid such conditions.
Poor bastards!
Gregg (suffering an attack of "It could have been me")
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> Graham
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> "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.
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>> 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.
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>> Sylvia.
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