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	2012 ARCHIVES Mouse Over Selected Month and/or Weekly Report and Click to View Details JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER January 1 'MAN-OF-STEEL' CROP DUSTER PILOT SURVIVES FIERY CRASH NEAR FORBES QLD's FRASER ISLAND CLAIMS ANOTHER LIGHT AIRCRAFT - C172 HELICOPTER IMPACTS GROUND AFTER POWER FAILURE ON TAKE-OFF FEMALE PILOT INJURED AFTER SAILPLANE CRASH AT BENALLA ULTRALIGHT PILOT INJURED PERFORMING AEROBATICS OVER LAKE HUME 2 WIND GUST FLIPS GA-8 AIRVAN INVERTED AT VICTORIAN DROP-ZONE MICROLIGHT PILOT UNABLE TO 'MOTHER' CRANES DUE REGULATIONS BALLOON CRASH IN KIWI-LAND CLAIMS 11 LIVES 3 HOME-BUILT ULTRALIGHT ACCIDENT INJURES THREE IN WHITSUNDAYS STUDENT PILOT INJURED IN GLIDER TRAINING FLIGHT AT BENALLA GYROCOPTER CRASH AT MANGALORE IN VICTORIA CLAIMS 2-LIVES PILOT SURVIVES HOME-BUILT ULTRALIGHT CRASH AT WHYALLA AUCTION AT KINGAROY OF WHITNEY BOOMERANG MANUFACTURING PLANT 4 SOUTH OZ AEROBATIC PILOT KILLED IN PITTS SPECIAL AT MURRY BRIDGE TWO ESCAPE SERIOUS INJURY AFTER CHIPMUNK ENGINE FAILURE IN NSW TIGER MOTH CRASH AT MARYBOROUGH IN VICTORIA CLAIMS 2-LIVES LIFT COMPONENT OF FLIGHT THEORY DEBUNKED AS INACCURATE February 1 SKYDIVE CESSNA DAMAGED IN FORCED LANDING IN THE WHITSUNDAYS FATAL R44 HELICOPTER CRASH NEAR NOWRA CLAIMS TWO LIVES AIRCRAFT OWNER JAILED OVER TRANSPORT OF ILLICIT DRUGS 2 ARCHERFIELD'S CIRRUS SALES OPERATOR IN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES 3 SEAREY AMPHIBIAN CRASH LANDS AT PORT MACQUARIE IN NSW AIR AUSTRALIA GOES BUST - STRANDS 4000 PASSENGERS OVERSEAS EMERGENCY LANDING AT BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL CLOSES MAIN RUNWAY 4 PILOT 'THROWS-IN-TOWEL' IN FIGHT WITH AUTHORITIES OVER LICENCE March 1 AUCTIONS CONTINUE TO DOMINATE AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AT ARCHERFIELD "IT'S ALL OVER RED-ROVER" - DESPATCH FROM THE HOME FRONT USA SERVER STATS FOR FEBRUARY AND TODAY INDICATE HIGH INTEREST 2 MILITARY ROTARY-WING SNARES POWER-LINE NEAR OAKEY IN QLD PILOT SAFE AFTER POWER-LINE SNARES ROTARY-WING NEAR TAMWORTH 3 SEARCH FOR BUNDABERG ULTRALIGHT AIRCRAFT AFTER SARTIME EXPIRES MISSING ULTRALIGHT LOCATED IN NORTH BUNDABERG CANE FIELD CONFLICT ERUPTS OVER SITING OF NEW AIRPORT IN THE WHITSUNDAYS 4 ULTRALIGHT PILOT INJURED IN MAIDEN FLIGHT AT WOODSTOCK IN FNQ EUROPA HOME-BUILT CRASH AT CABOOLTURE CLAIMS LIFE OF PILOT PARACHUTIST CRITICALLY INJURED ON MAIDEN JUMP AT GATTON April 1 TWO KILLED IN GLIDER ACCIDENT AT ARARAT IN MID-WEST VICTORIA 2 ULTRALIGHT JABIRU IN FORCED LANDING AFTER ENGINE FAILURE IN VIC APPARENT LOSS OF CONTROL IN 3 SPIN-TYPE ACCIDENTS CLAIM 4-LIVES CROPDUSTER PILOT KILLED DURING ROUTINE OPS NEAR MOREE IN NSW MICROLIGHT CRASH CLAIMS TWO LIVES IN SOUTHERN NSW PARACHUTIST INJURED ON MAIDEN 'SOLO' JUMP AT RIPCORD GATTON 3 PILOT KILLED IN HOME-BUILT HELICOPTER CRASH NEAR EROMANGA PILOT INJURED IN CESSNA 210 WHEELS-UP LANDING IN THE NT ULTRALIGHT PILOT INJURED IN LOSS-OF-CONTROL ACCIDENT IN VICTORIA 4 CATTLE MUSTERING CESSNA ACCIDENT CLAIMS LIFE OF BOURKE PILOT ARCHERFIELD TRAINED AIR CHARTER PILOT IN NEW BUSINESS VENTURE MEDIA INTEREST IN GRUMMAN ALBATROSS'S ARRIVAL ON SYDNEY HARBOUR May 1 CROPDUSTER PILOT KILLED DURING ROUTINE OPS AT HALLSTON IN VIC 2 ROYAL AIR FORCE P-40 KITTYHAWK FOUND AFTER 70-YEARS IN DESERT WARBIRD JOY-FLIGHT IN TROJAN CUT SHORT AT TOOWOOMBA AIRSHOW 3 MICROLIGHT PILOT SERIOUSLY INJURED IN CRASH AT WEST WYALONG JABIRU TO BE SUED IN USA AFTER FATAL ACCIDENT IN ARIZONA IN 2008 4 SEARCH UNDER WAY IN WESTERN NSW FOR OVERDUE LIGHT AIRCRAFT - AIRCRAFT LOCATED - PILOT FOUND DECEASED IN WRECKAGE - PARACHUTIST DIES AT RIPCORD DROP ZONE NEAR GATTON IN S-E QLD CASA WINS IN COURT HEARING OVER TV FOOTAGE OF JONES HELICOPTER UK STUNTMAN FIRST PARACHUTER TO LAND AND LIVE WITHOUT USING ONE June 1 BAD WEATHER CLAIMS PILOT AND CESSNA 182 IN WARRUMBUNGLE NP AIRCENTRE SERVER STATS FOR MAY 2012 SHOWS RECORD INTEREST 2 FINKE RACE HELICOPTER PRANG INJURES PASSENGER NEAR THE ALICE CESSNA SUCCESSFUL PRECAUTIONARY LANDING ON UNUSED FREEWAY MICROLIGHT CRASH NEAR TEMORA AIRPORT CLAIMS LIFE OF PILOT ADMINISTRATORS APPOINTED TO ALLIGATOR AIRWAYS IN WEST OZ BRITS CELEBRATE 60-YEAR ROYAL REIGN WITH BATTLE-OF-BRITAIN FLYPAST 3 MILLION $$$ HELICOPTER GOES UP IN SMOKE AFTER EMERGENCY LANDING PILOT INJURED IN CESSNA 182 TAKE-OFF CRASH AT LINDEN IN QLD PILOT TRAINING HELICOPTER DAMAGED IN HEAVY LANDING AT REDCLIFFE 4 GYROCOPTER PILOT SURVIVES FORCED LANDING ON PHILLIP ISLAND B58 EMERGENCY LANDING AT BANKSTOWN AFTER UNDERCARRIAGE FAILURE July 1 HOMEBUILT LANCAIR EMERGENCY AFTER EXPLOSIVE DECOMPRESSION AMERICAN AVIATORS SUCCEED IN GAINING PILOT's 'BILL-OF-RIGHTS' 2 GOLDEN EAGLE'S PA-34 IMPACTS SAND DUNES AFTER DEPARTING BROOME GA-8 AIRVAN IN FORCED NIGHT LANDING DURING PILOT TRAINING IN THE NT 3 EXPERIENCED SYDNEY SKYDIVER FAILS TO RECOVER FROM JUMP INJURIES 4 AUSTRIAN SKYDIVER TO ATTEMPT RECORD FREEFALL FROM STRATOSPHERE August 1 QANTAS PILOT RELINQUISHES COMMAND OVER ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY 2 WILD STORM IN TEXAS USA DEMOLISHES HANGAR AND TRASHES AIRCRAFT 3 HELICOPTER PRANG INCORRECTLY REPORTED BY TV NEWS AS GYROCOPTER 4 SOLO SKYDIVER FATALLY INJURED ON LANDING AT KINGS BEACH CALOUNDRA ULTRALIGHT CRASH ON CAPE YORK PENINSULA CLAIMS LIFE OF PILOT ULTRALIGHT STALL-SPIN ACCIDENT INJURES TWO IN SOUTH OZ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHALLENGES AIRPORT MASTER PLAN APPROVAL September 1 FIRE ENGULFS JABIRU AFTER FORCED LANDING IN VIC - PILOT SURVIVES RICHARD BACH SERIOUSLY INJURED IN SEAREY HOMEBUILT CRASH IN USA 2 R44 TOURIST HELICOPTER IN EMERGENCY LANDING NORTH OF BROOME HONOURING "THE FEW" IN SPITFIRE BASED FLY-IN AT WILLOWBANK IN QLD ADMINISTRATOR AUCTIONS PART OF ALLIGATOR AIRWAYS FLEET ON-LINE 3 SKYFOX GAZELLE CRASH LANDS AFTER TAKE-OFF AT MOORABBIN IN VIC QLD'S IPSWICH COUNCIL SHUTS DOWN SPITFIRE FLY-IN AT WILLOWBANK 4 TWO INJURED IN MICROLIGHT TRIKE WIRE-STRIKE NEAR MACKAY PIPER PA-32 ENGINE FAILURE AND FORCED LANDING NEAR YEA IN VICTORIA October 1  RINGER DIES IN CATTLE MUSTERING HELICOPTER PRANG IN WEST OZ  CLASSIC VINTAGE DH-84 MISSING WITH 6 PERSONS ON BOARD NEAR KILCOY  AIRCRAFT WRECKAGE LOCATED @ 1400HRS NORTH OF BORUMBA DAM  2  TCAS SAVES THE DAY AGAIN FOR QANTAS - CONTROLLER SUSPENDED 3  SIXTY WARTIME SPITFIRES LOCATED IN PRISTINE CONDITION IN BURMA  RAAF C-130 HERCULES IN EMERGENCY LANDING AT WOOMERA IN SOUTH OZ  FELIX BREAKS SOUND-BARRIER DURING FREEFALL FROM EDGE OF SPACE  FATHER AND SON TEAM IN MOTOR-GLIDER EMERGENCY LANDING IN VIC 4  FATAL C-172 LIGHT AIRCRAFT CRASH NEAR BAGSHOT IN VICTORIA  QLD POLICE ISSUE WARRANT FOR KILLER OF MIKE DAVIES OF LANCAIR KITS  QANTAS PASSENGER JET IN HEAVY LANDING AT NIFTY MINE AIRSTRIP IN WA November 1 PILOT TRAINING TWIN IN WHEELS-UP LANDING AT JANDAKOT IN WEST OZ ARCHERFIELD AIRPORT MASTER PLAN OBJECTION IN PUBLIC MEETING PILOT OF P-51 MUSTANG REPLICA KILLED IN CRASH AT HELIDON SPA RINGER UNINJURED IN MUSTERING HELICOPTER PRANG IN CENTRAL OZ 2 PILOT UNINJURED IN JABIRU ULTRALIGHT ENGINE FAILURE IN WEST OZ GOLD COAST INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENT KILLED IN TRAINING ACCIDENT RQAC CESSNA 172 DEMOLISHED IN FORCED LANDING NEAR ARCHERFIELD 3 SOUTH OZ PILOT KILLED IN CAPE YORK PENINSULA CRASH NEAR MAPOON FATAL DEEP-STALLS IN CIRCUIT AREA INDICATE POOR PILOT TRAINING 4 OCTOGENARIAN PILOT'S EMERGENCY LANDING AT JANDAKOT IN WEST OZ CIRRUS PARACHUTE DEPLOYED AFTER ENGINE FAILURE NEAR GILGANDRA ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE SACKS PILOT OVER ILLICIT DRUG USE December 1 PASSENGER JETS HOLDING OVER BRISBANE AWAITING LANDING SLOT 2 FATAL R44 HELICOPTER CRASH DURING CROP-DUSTING OPS NEAR MUDGEE GROUNDING OF NT'S HARDY AVIATION LIFTED AFTER CASA CONSULTATION CASA GROUNDS NT'S HARDY AVIATION AFTER 21 YEARS OPERATION 3 SKYDIVE CESSNA CRASH AT BURRUM HEADS IN QLD CLAIMS LIVE OF PILOT 4 OZ AIR REGULATOR SUSPENDS CAIRNS BASED CHARTER OPERATOR BARRIER SANTA'S ARRIVAL - 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