March 28 
A Victorian based aircraft has been impounded by Archerfield's owner for non-payment of fees

This OZ designed and built Eagle X-TS, a popular trainer with the aero club a short while back, now joins the long standing Piper Arrow in the "Compound"

Refer HERE for previous article and links on the PA28R and "It's on Again" C150 link

 March 28 
A Sydney bound Qantas B747 was at FL430 over South OZ's interior on November 13 last year when it suddenly yawed to the right and entered a 20^o roll

The crew disengaged the auto pilot and began activating and de-activating yaw damper switches trying to isolate the problem which produced 'Dutch Rolling'

After rectifying the problem the secondary autopilot was engaged and the flight continued to Sydney

 March 25 
A 24-year-old commercial pilot received serious burns when the chartered Cessna 210 aircraft he was flying in alone crashed on an island off the east coast of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory

Media reports have the aircraft crashing soon after take-off on the remote Groote Eylandt island

"There is a suggestion that he might have hit an aerial"

 March 23 
An ultralight had a wing separate from it's fuselage shortly after carrying out what appeared to be some type of acrobatic manoeuvre overhead Mareeba, Atherton Tablelands

Witnesses reported hearing an explosion at around 1520hrs, possibly as a result of the pilot exceeding the machine's design limits, with one wing falling from the aircraft and landing on a property about 500 metres from the eventual crash site

The well known local pilot did not survive