Broome based charter operator - King Leopold Air's Cessna C210 with 5 POB on a joy flight over the Kimberley region - had a total engine failure and finished up making an emergency landing on a remote cattle property in West OZ
A Perth family of four - 2 adults and 2 children were able to walk away from the wreckage of the C210 - the pilot is reported to have sustained a minor ankle injury
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The 21year-old commercial pilot from Mooloolaba in Queensland attempted to land on a dirt track at Kilto station after declaring a May-Day - the distress call was picked up by authorities over 3000 km away in Brisbane
A station worker reports '..I have seen the plane and it is a write-off but everyone is fine'
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