A few planes in the air, or just about to land on Tiwi. Maybe they aren’t sure where it has gone down.
The ABC has confirmed multiple military personnel have been rescued from an aircraft crash site on the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin.
There are no reports of fatalities.
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Good to hear
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ABC saying , 3 injured - 1 critical, 2 stable
Update:
23 injured, all US Marines
5 in Darwin Hospital and 1 critical
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3 confirmed dead now, 5 more in “critical” condition
Terrible news
Today’s “I’m looking for a new job”
United Airlines Boeing 737-900 (N75425, built 2008) sustained substantial damage in a ground collision at Chicago-O’Hare Intl Airport(KORD), IL. An American Airlines baggage cart driver hit the nose of the 737 while it was parked at Gate M37 after flight #UA1664 from Punta Cana.
Those Ospreys have been involved in quite a few fatal crashes. Perhaps the worst plane in service since the F104 Starfighters.
Rotorcraft (helicopters, V22 type VSTOL) always have a higher rate of crashes. It goes with the turf.
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V-22 Osprey’s suffer from a “vortex ring” condition where an excessive rate of descent causes vortices to separate from the rotor disc, causing a substantial loss of lift and an increased rate of descent, resulting in uncontrolled impact with the ground. A frew crashed for that reason during development, but as mentioned above they seemed to have mitigated that issue with training and perhaps improved control logic to limit maximum rates of descent.
They are a complicated beastie though, so any number of mechanical failures could occur, let alone piloting errors.
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What was the driver thinking?!
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Air crash investigation first aired twenty years ago today.
