Plane Crashes into DFO Essendon

[iluvparis]

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/live-essendon-airport-crash-20170220-guhf2x.html

EDIT: 4 passengers and pilot on board dead

 

[Doss]

Not good.

From the sounds of it, was a nasty crash so the chances of this ending badly are high.

It's a wonder people on the ground aren't hurt too.

 

[NotAMagpieBogan]

What time did it actually happen?

 

[Doss]

What time did it actually happen?

Just before 9am apparently.

 

[szhengd]

around 9.00 am

 

[NotAMagpieBogan]

So before shops had opened at least, less people would've been around.

 

[rippersnipper]

Was going to make this thread myself an hour or so ago. My old man just called saying that all the hospital staff at the royal melbourne have been put on alert. However it seems as though there were no ground casualties at all. Very fortunate. Very sad news though.

 

[Hamez]

Allegedly 4 American tourist flying to King Island to play golf today.

 

[the_interloper]

Maybe the pilot just heard Lloyd only got one week?

 

[Power Raid]

I thought it was fake news

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Brings back memories of the Gulle family all but getting wiped out back in 1978.

Sad news.

 

[NitroFan]

Not good.

From the sounds of it, was a nasty crash so the chances of this ending badly are high.

It's a wonder people on the ground aren't hurt too.

Stores not open and apparently hit a storage area.

 

[Doss]

Police are saying no one onboard survived.

 

[rdhopkins2]

Sad news. Any idea of cause?

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Sad news. Any idea of cause?

According to reports the pilot reported a catastrophic engine failure

 

[brucetiki]

Horrible news, but it could've been a hell of a lot worse.

 

[rumply]

sounds very lucky it was only those on the plane that have perished, a caller to abc radio reported he was in a taxi on the freeway near the crash & a wheel from the plane glanced off their car, had this happened an hour later when the DFO had opened & it could have been horrific.

 

[Smoooothy]

this shows how quickly it all happened, in the space of about a km

 

[Chicago1]

Coverage was just on our NBC Chicago 10pm news here. Looked horrible. I remember the crash near the Essendon airport into a home back in 1978 which killed six people in one family including four children.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

I can't believe that any media outlet is allowed to report on something such as this and use the words THOUGHT and BELIEVE when reporting on someone who may or may not have died in the crash. They include some more information in later in the article which would lead you to conclude that it is probably right (not that this is right either), but the words, THOUGHT and BELIEVE are in the first two (2) paragraphs.

You'd want to be 100% that you were bloody well right.

THE man thought to have been piloting today’s doomed flight bound for King Island was a “great guy” with years of experience.

Essendon Airport businesses and several aviation sources say they believe seasoned pilot Max Quartermain, aged in his 60s, was flying the plane which crashed shortly after takeoff with four passengers on-board.

 

[craigos]

Not as bad a major news channel reporting it as an Air Ambulance crashing. FMD, way to make a whole lot of people panic. Disgraceful.

 

[rdhopkins2]

Terribly tragic and fortunate that more weren't killed. I don't mean to devalue the lives lost but it could have been worse.

Catastrophic engine failure by the sounds of it. Was it a mechanical issue? Pilot error? Weather? Bird strike? Contaminated fuel? Runway contamination? Some more likely than others but no doubt the ATSB will thoroughly investigate. Terrorism or sabotage would seem extremely unlikely.

A sad day for the families of those killed and in the history of Australian aviation.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Not as bad a major news channel reporting it as an Air Ambulance crashing. FMD, way to make a whole lot of people panic. Disgraceful.

I think it was because it had a similar livery.

 

[craigos]

I think it was because it had a similar livery.

If that's their excuse it is pathetic. The ****ing thing was on fire "oh there is a red bit", AIR AMBULANCE!

 

[craigos]

Terribly tragic and fortunate that more weren't killed. I don't mean to devalue the lives lost but it could have been worse.

Catastrophic engine failure by the sounds of it. Was it a mechanical issue? Pilot error? Weather? Bird strike? Contaminated fuel? Runway contamination? Some more likely than others but no doubt the ATSB will thoroughly investigate.

A sad day for the families of those killed and in the history of Australian aviation.

Twin engine as well, if it had happened when they were another 100 foot in the air who knows, they could have made it back.