Vic: Botched landing kills pilot in fiery plane crash

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-2007
Vic: Botched landing kills pilot in fiery plane crash

A botched double landing involving a student pilot has been blamed for a mid-air collision
that caused a fiery ultralight crash .. killing a man in southeast Victoria.

The 65-year-old pilot died when his ultralight plunged to the ground and burst into
flames after the collision .. west of the Gippsland town of Traralgan late this morning.

The plane disintegrated on impact .. and wreckage was scattered across an area about
500 metres north of the Latrobe Valley Regional Airport.

The other plane landed safely and the solo student pilot escaped uninjured.

Civil Aviation Safety Authority spokesman PETER GIBSON said the Avid 992 ultralight
and the single-engine Cessna 172 were coming in to land when the accident happened.

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KEYWORD: ULTRALIGHT (MELBOURNE)

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