Queensland Crash...

[Bill Clem]

No details. From ABC news.

Pilot critically injured in gyrocopter crash
Posted Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:36am AEST


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A 30-year-old man is clinging to life in a central Queensland hospital after a gyrocopter crash near Biloela late yesterday.

Police say the pilot clipped powerlines and slammed into a field at Dakenba around 5:00pm (AEST).

He was initially taken to Biloela Hospital but has been airlifted to Rockhampton Hospital where he remains in a critical condition.

Aviation safety authorities are investigating the circumstances.

Topics: accidents, dakenba-4715, biloela-4715, rockhampton-4700

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[All_In]

Wires!!!! Pilots cannot see them, our eyes do not pick up horizontal lines as well as vertical = when low constantly look for POLLS they are wider and you can see them.

On emergency landings on dirt roads I was taught to look for fence polls and telephone polls!

 

[birdy]

A 30-year-old man is clinging to life in a central Queensland hospital after a gyrocopter crash near Biloela
Bloodyell!!!
How unlucky is that?
Powerlines??? near Biloela, he must picked out the only one there.

 

[Graeme Monro]

Biloela

Biloela

A 30-year-old man is clinging to life in a central Queensland hospital after a gyrocopter crash near Biloela
Bloodyell!!!
How unlucky is that?
Powerlines??? near Biloela, he must picked out the only one there.

eace:
I think there are 3 Birdy, but all on the same pole.

 

[bones]

Birdy i think your getting biloela mixed up with boulia, plenty lines down that way one would think, heaps of mining in that area so that means heaps of power usage.

 

[birdy]

F*** my dislexia.

 

[Bill Clem]

Birdy, don't forget...

Birdy, don't forget...

the old rallying cry... "Dyslexics Untie!" or "In Dog We Trust!"

Any news locally on the pilot?

 

[Mark E]

Biloela in CQ is pretty densely populated (by NT standards) - a lot of farming - plenty of grain and cotton - great danger there is from low flying crop dusters, and a few of those hit lines too when I was there in the 80s...

And the Callide Power Station and Callide Coal mine is about 20 Km to the east - so there are some big lines around there...

Some bigger cattle places (well, not by Birdy and NT standards) to the west. Possibly he was working out there?

I pray he is pulling through OK.