A 60-year-old recreational pilot test flying his home-built Sierra on its maiden flight from Warwick's Deuchar-Massie aerodrome was severely injured when shortly after take-off the two-seater turned abruptly and impacted the ground and caught fire



Emergency crews were called to the airport just before 1500hrs yesterday after initial reports had a light aircraft on fire with the occupant still inside



The pilot was able to extract himself and was treated initially at the scene for third-degree burns to 75 per cent of his body

The pilot of a Jabiru that landed nose-first in a paddock yesterday near Port Lincoln on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula was trapped in the wreckage and had to be cut free



Initial media reports indicated the Jabiru may have overturned after the nose-wheel collapsed and that pilot was not seriously injured



Later reports have the pilot on his first solo and that the crash occurred shortly after take-off and Emergency Crews carried him to an ambulance on a spinal board

The local Brisbane news media is reporting on the recent news release from the Australian Federal Police with the head of the AFP criminal asset taskforce - Ian McCartney - shown leaning on the wing-tip fuel tank of a Russian MiG fighter at Archerfield airport which had been seized by the AFP under the Proceeds of Crime Act Scheme



One small problem with the image depicted in the media - the jet IS NOT a MiG - it is in fact a 1970's vintage Aero L-39 Albatros from Czechoslovakia

A 52-year-old Victorian ultralight pilot flying from Bairnsdale in Victoria to a roadhouse between Tibooburra and Broken Hill sustained a broken eye socket and hand injuries after attempting to land at the Packsaddle roadhouse in far western New South Wales



The unidentified ultralight apparently clipped a power-line and then bellyflopped onto the ground at about 1730hrs yesterday