June 12  2006
The Clamback and Hennessy aircraft ferry team had another lucky escape after one of the two machines they were flying from the USA to OZ had to ditch into the Pacific Ocean after a fuel supply problem
 
48-year-old Lyn Grey - the pilot-in-command of the PA-44 along with co-pilot 28-year-old Kristian Kauter - spent only about five minutes on the wing of the ditched machine before the USA's Honolulu based Coast Guard rescued them

 
Ray Clamback was in the 'other' aircraft keeping tabs on progress of the stricken Piper PA-44 Seminole twin-engine machine
 
The rescued pair lost all their personal belongings - the machine sank within a few minutes of the rescue
 

News Desk Comment

Not one of the best excuses to go shopping in Honolulu for new clothes - but very very original!

June 12  2006
A South Korean Asiana Airlines Airbus A321 with 200 passengers on board - including 177 elementary school students on a school tour - lost the nose-cone and had the windshield cracked after encountering large hailstones flying from the southern resort island of Cheju to Seoul

 
The captain was able to land the aircraft safely even though it was virtually impossible to see through the shattered windscreen
 
"The hail wrecked the housing for the main radar system and also punctured its engine covers"