Swan Hill

[Ben Longden]

Heading to Swan Hill this afternoon from Shepparton, I heard of an EFATO - a real one at Swan Hill. All I heard was the pilot and plane are fine.

 

Anyone?

 

Ben

 

 

[eastmeg2]

Hi Ben,

 

We were on the Megafauna Fly-Away last week and stayed in Swann Hill on the evening of Friday 23rd May.

 

A 582 strut braced Drifter in our group had an engine failure 3 miles out to the NW, inbound from Mildura, landed safely in a ploughed farmers paddock and walked in to town to meet the rest of us.

 

A kind local aviator who happened to know the farmer whose paddock he landed in assisted with his 4WD to move the Drifter into a shed.

 

Last I heard, the Drifter pilot had his engine removed and was headed for Melbourne to get a replacement 582 from Flood's.

 

Cheers,

 

Glen

 

 

[Ben Longden]

Thats good news.

 

Any idea why the engine failed?

 

Ben

 

 

[eastmeg2]

Not really, from discussions with him later that night all that was known at the time was that it stopped with the usual 1/2 second warning a 582 will give in that situation and that he was 1500ft AGL when it happened.