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Group: aus.aviation · Group Profile
Author: RTRT Date: Sep 17, 2008 01:02
"terry" iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
news:4f00793c-91ad-43ae-a0d5-cf7630659112@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
On Sep 16, 7:33 pm, BernieFlyer gmail.com> wrote:> Crash Lander wrote:
>> OzOne wrote:
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>>> They went into the top of a ridge in weather that kept most vfr pilots
>>> on the ground......
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>> Ah. Why do people make such decisions! Such a waste, but, hindsight is
>> a wonderful thing I suppose. Very sad.
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> And they follow many before them in that area. I lost some mates about
> 27 years ago up in that zone. They were IFR but I guess ice got them.
> Not found for ages after. Very sad business.
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Its not that far from the Barringtops Tops, where the bushwalkers
still have regular trips to search for VH-MDX
the C210 which went down in 1981 with 5 people on board. Still no
trace has ever been found. Thats what I call Tiger Country.
Terry
[Outlook - doncha luv it! It's stopped indenting & ">" ing - RT]
Anyway, have reported this one before, but since the thread is spreading...
About 36 years ago a C172 hit the top of a ridge in the same area as this
latest one. We (I was at Tamair at the time) reckoned to have a look to see
if there was anything worth salvaging, thinking particularly of the engine.
Huh. Had to climb for nearly an hour after the 4WD could go no further and
by that time we were so high the only available helicopter - a poor little
Hughes 200 - wouldn't have been able to hover - let alone lift anything. So
it was a wasted trip - except we could see what had happened.
The VFR C172 was in IFR conditions at cruise in level flight - daytime but
thick cloud. When it arrived at the mountain top, it hit it with the stbd
wing, from the inboard end of the aileron to the tip, and the stbd u/c. I'm
not kidding - that's how steep the bloody country is. Anyway, the impact
did nothing good to the wing and tore the u/c leg out.
The impact slewed the a/c to stbd. The new direction took the fuselage
neatly between 2 trees, about one fuselage-width apart, with the impact
being about 15ft (5 m) above the ground. Did I mention this was steep
country?
With that, the fuse more-or-less stopped dead and fell to the ground, while
the engine continued on its way, before tumbling and spitting an armature
into a tree trunk about 30 ft (10 m ) from the ground where it stuck like a
dart - about 15 yards/15 m away.
The pilot was the only occupant. He, without a scratch, picked up his
brief case and climbed down the hill. The direction he chose took him to a
fence. The direction he chose at the fence took him to the homestead.
This proves God is a gardner. He really looks after His vegies.
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