danny_galaga Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) Don't know if the new amalgamation of Google/News Corp is reporting it yet (they weren't yesterday) but we happened to see on channel 7 news that a Tiger moth came down near amberley. Looked quite damaged, apparently engine failure and the moth hit a post landing in a paddock. Pilot and passenger unharmed. We happened to be in boonah yesterday. We had hired a Tecnam to go for a pootle. Very surprised to see a whole bunch of aircraft there, maybe 30 or 40. Including maybe five Tiger moths! So I'm guessing this one was part of the fly in. Was painted in traditional airforce yellow. Edited February 21, 2021 by danny_galaga 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyG Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Glad their both ok, I was at the Boonah Fly-in as well but cant recall a yellow Tigermoth there, Looked through all my photos but didn't see one. There was a silver one with yellow stripes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_galaga Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 Yeah I couldn't recall it either. Just assumed. A coincidence I guess. So we probably walked past each other at some stage 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_galaga Posted February 23, 2021 Author Share Posted February 23, 2021 Well it looks like it still hasn't happened according to Goog Corp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 No. Goog Corp just don't want to pay for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasper Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 (edited) Microsoft Bing will allow you to find it in images searching for Amberley tigermoth crash and limit it to the last month ... appears to be VH-UZB My bad - this is a crash from 3 years ago that came up on Bing for last week Edited February 23, 2021 by kasper error 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBoy1960 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 A quick search shows the aircraft as the same one that crashed near our airfield about five years ago and killed a young person doing the "joy flight" https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2015/aair/ao-2015-150/ The investigation shows the aircraft as being destroyed, but it was obviously worthwhile to restore to some person 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasper Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 3 minutes ago, FlyBoy1960 said: A quick search shows the aircraft as the same one that crashed near our airfield about five years ago and killed a young person doing the "joy flight" https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2015/aair/ao-2015-150/ The investigation shows the aircraft as being destroyed, but it was obviously worthwhile to restore to some person Bing bad! it was the picture of the 3yo crash that was posted last week as the Amberly one .. I'll delete my post as its very misleading 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_galaga Posted February 23, 2021 Author Share Posted February 23, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, red750 said: No. Goog Corp just don't want to pay for it. I'm being wry. Google have done a deal with News Corp, hence I now call them Goog Corp. There was never anything to pay. You look something up, Google shows you the link to say a news corp story. You go to their site, and then you pay however it is News corp wanted you to pay. I think Google just figured it was easier to pay some protection money to us Aussie hicks than to try and argue the point. In any case, since it doesn't look like any news corp affiliates reported the crash, it doesn't get a showing on Google. I predict for one web crawl cycle, which is normally a 30 day cycle. So it should appear on Google from anywhere between now and about 28 days from now. We may have the recording of the news story, so I'll have a look tonight to see if I can see a rego. Edited February 23, 2021 by danny_galaga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_galaga Posted February 23, 2021 Author Share Posted February 23, 2021 Bugger, my partner deleted the recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibby Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 VH- SSK, recently acquired by the RAAF flying club Amberley, new engine, 10 hours old failed, no injuries 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_galaga Posted February 26, 2021 Author Share Posted February 26, 2021 20 minutes ago, gibby said: VH- SSK, recently acquired by the RAAF flying club Amberley, new engine, 10 hours old failed, no injuries Thank you! Did hear from someone close to the source? What a pity. It looked quite damaged in the news footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibby Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 8 hours ago, danny_galaga said: Thank you! Did hear from someone close to the source? What a pity. It looked quite damaged in the news footage. I know the previous owner, doesn’t look like it will fly again, substantially damaged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 IF it doesn't burn, it can fly again.. It's THAT type of aeroplane. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Student Pilot Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 Quite a few of the with SS prefix were old Super Spread aircraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thruster88 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 VH-SSK http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austmz/VH-SSK2.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_galaga Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 well, according to the innerwebz, it STILL hasn't happened 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_galaga Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 Oh hang on, it's googling now: (source sounds familiar) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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