Gyro Fatality FNQ

[asra]

This is in Today"s Cairns paper, see PDF attachment as a GYRO is mentioned as the aircraft, different to the article from Friday!This was reported on Fridayhttp://www.cairns.com.au/article/201...ocal-news.htmlBuggerBlue

[Brian]

There"s been nothing come to ASRA in regard to this accident. Normally, police contact the ASRA operation manager immediately.

[GraemeMonro]

Blue, why do you have a heading of " Gyro Fatality in FNQ" when the news paper said Ultralight?Do you know something the rest of us don"t?Even the ABC are saying Ultralight plane crash.

[Tsemler]

Graeme, I thought the same thing at first because I was looking at it in new post and didn"t actually open the topic, If you open up the topic you will see the PDF file that Blue attached from todays Cairn"s newspaper, which mentions that it was a Gyroplane.

[asra]

Sorry for the confusion, have made the first notification post more understandable.Read the attached PDF.Blue

[asra]

Hi All,The fatality did involve a gyro. We we"re notified yesterday by the Operations manager of RA Aus. They were initially notified as it was first thought to be an ultralight.It was reported to us as a "RAF" type but we had no details of a RAF operating out of that area.Some digging around revealed it was most likely the gyro from the late Warwick Ladbrooks(Ozzywoz) estate.The "Pilot" was unlicensed and the machine unregistered,we aren"t sure if he had any gyro experience.The police advised he was 22 years old but according to the paper he was 32.The gyro was completely destroyed by fire. ASRA have offered assistance to the police if required.

[Brian]

Thats really sad news.

[asra]

Sorry you weren"t informed straight away Brian but we had conflicting reports,we didn"t know for sure till late that day.This is an unfortunate tale of someone with apparently large amounts of cash to buy a nice gyro but none for training.The gyro was completely destroyed by fire at takeoff.ASRA has had an AD (2008.02) out for some time concerning fuel filler modifications to gyro"s with internal fuel tanks.Maybe if the owner had consulted a TA and gone through the registration process the gyro would have been properly modified and may not have burnt.

[Brian]

Sorry you weren"t informed straight away Brian but we had conflicting reports,we didn"t know for sure till late that day.This is an unfortunate tale of someone with apparently large amounts of cash to buy a nice gyro but none for training.The gyro was completely destroyed by fire at takeoff.ASRA has had an AD (2008.02) out for some time concerning fuel filler modifications to gyro"s with internal fuel tanks.Maybe if the owner had consulted a TA and gone through the registration process the gyro would have been properly modified and may not have burnt.Thats doubly sad news!! You wonder why anyone nowadays would even begin to believe they didnt need training but here we go. That bloke is someone"s son, husband etc and he leaves a lot of people wondering why.