Missing Aircraft
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:02 amA Cessna 337 Skymaster with the Reg of VH-CHU has gone missing while doing a flight to marimbula Airport during Midday (GMT +10)
The pilot of the 30 year-old plane, Geoff Milne, was taking his son to meet a Flight Instructor.
"I was expecting to meet them yesterday afternoon, and he (Geoff) was bringing his son up here to possibly learn to fly. They were going to meet an instructor here at Merimbula," Mr Campbell said.
"When I arrived here, I didn't see their plane, so I rang the Moorabbin air traffic control tower."
Mr Campbell said the plane left Moorabbin and had planned to head for Wilson's Promontory but disappeared off the radar screen.
"That's quite normal - it doesn't mean they've crashed, just means they're out of radar," Mr Campbell said.
"Then they were supposed to track up to Lakes Entrance and Ninety Mile Beach before following the coast to Merimbula."
Aviation consultant Lincoln Robinson said if the Cessna had crashed, its Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT), which all aircraft are required to be fitted with, should have activated, transmitting the location of where it went down to authorities.
Info found here: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=326078
The pilot of the 30 year-old plane, Geoff Milne, was taking his son to meet a Flight Instructor.
"I was expecting to meet them yesterday afternoon, and he (Geoff) was bringing his son up here to possibly learn to fly. They were going to meet an instructor here at Merimbula," Mr Campbell said.
"When I arrived here, I didn't see their plane, so I rang the Moorabbin air traffic control tower."
Mr Campbell said the plane left Moorabbin and had planned to head for Wilson's Promontory but disappeared off the radar screen.
"That's quite normal - it doesn't mean they've crashed, just means they're out of radar," Mr Campbell said.
"Then they were supposed to track up to Lakes Entrance and Ninety Mile Beach before following the coast to Merimbula."
Aviation consultant Lincoln Robinson said if the Cessna had crashed, its Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT), which all aircraft are required to be fitted with, should have activated, transmitting the location of where it went down to authorities.
Info found here: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=326078
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