missing helicopter, northern NSW
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missing helicopter, northern NSW
News reports of search and rescue operation under-way to find a missing helicopter with 3 on board (pilot + 2 PAX) which "disappeared somewhere between Tamworth and the Northern Beaches". The flight departed on Saturday bound for Northern Sydney but the search did not commence until today due to "no 'SAR time alert'"
SMH have reported the aircraft is a privately-owned EC135.
Daily Telegraph Article
SMH have reported the aircraft is a privately-owned EC135.
Daily Telegraph Article
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- 3rd Dan
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Re: missing helicopter, northen NSW
Hope they find Richard Green and his wife and friends.
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AMSA Dornier is in the air - Flightaware track certainly shows them circling a tight area in the Watagans NP west of Lake Macquarie.
I hope the news from the ground is positive.
I hope the news from the ground is positive.
- hand in pants
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With luck, Richard and company will be found in good nick.
Hand in Pants, I'm thinking, my god, that IS huge!!!!!!!!
- Jabberwocky
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Having worked in there a fair bit, it can be a nasty area that can catch you out. Hopefully Richard and Carol have found somewhere to put it down.
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Re: missing helicopter, northen NSW
Has been found.
Unfortunately the news is not good....
Unfortunately the news is not good....
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SKIDBITA wrote:Has been found.
Unfortunately the news is not good....
Any further info on location or a link to news report?
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I've been following this all day. Here is the track of the AMSA Dornier search aircraft. The larger circling track on the left is the Dornier's first track, then a Squirrel appeared briefly on Flight Tracker and was essentially stationary, shortly thereafter the AMSA aircraft began circling the Squirrel's location which is the smaller circle on the right. Various news outlets reporting wreckage has been found.
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Re: missing helicopter, northen NSW
Unfortunately the worst has been confirmed.
- Twistgrip
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"You can watch things happen, you can make things happen or you can wonder what happened"
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Re: missing helicopter, northen NSW
Dear fellow pilots,
As a friend of Richard and Carolyn, I'm deeply saddened by todays news. I will miss them both ... very much.
Please fly safe and read the weather reports every flight.
Regards
Matthew Quinlan
As a friend of Richard and Carolyn, I'm deeply saddened by todays news. I will miss them both ... very much.
Please fly safe and read the weather reports every flight.
Regards
Matthew Quinlan
Matthew Quinlan
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Re: missing helicopter, northen NSW
Our thoughts go out to their friends and families.
A sad day.
A sad day.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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Very sad news.
From what I know, they were a great couple and they will be missed by many.
RIP
From what I know, they were a great couple and they will be missed by many.
RIP
There is always an option.
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What a sad day.
A legend in the industry.
A legend in the industry.
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another sad day for Our industry..........Rest in Peace
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Had the privilege to fly with Richard a few times in the Gazelle days and then when he got the new EC135. Loved to talk photography with him and he will be sorely missed.
Rest in Peace
Rest in Peace
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I only know the Greens through their fabulous book 'Remote & Wild', autographed by both as a fund-raising item for The Greens.
Very sad to learn of their demise - a great loss to the helicopter, photography and environmental worlds.
Very sad to learn of their demise - a great loss to the helicopter, photography and environmental worlds.
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Very sad to hear the news of Richard and Carolyn, and also of their passenger. I never met Richard but felt I new him through his blog, the last of which arrived in my inbox last Friday. In it he described his most recent travels to places in and around our beautiful country that I will never manage to visit.
Thoughts with Richard and Carolyn's family and friends.
Thoughts with Richard and Carolyn's family and friends.
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Re: missing helicopter, northern NSW
Never a good thing for anyone within our fraternity to lose their life. A sad day for the broader industry and family/friends of the deceased.
http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw ... 7602426160
http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw ... 7602426160
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It's official, 9 news has declared the accident that took three lives near Cessnock as "pilot error". Well done, ATSB can relax and drop the investigation. These people obviously have a wealth of aviation knowledge to be able to come to a conclusion without even getting on the ground at the accident site. What absolute morons. REPORT THE NEWS, DON'T MAKE IT UP.
I also see that the media is happy to bring up the pilots past. Nice slagging guys, you obviously don't make mistakes.
And some of us thought some slappers were quick off the mark to second guess other pilots. We are actually a very poor second....................
I also see that the media is happy to bring up the pilots past. Nice slagging guys, you obviously don't make mistakes.
And some of us thought some slappers were quick off the mark to second guess other pilots. We are actually a very poor second....................
Hand in Pants, I'm thinking, my god, that IS huge!!!!!!!!
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