Thread: Light plane crashes on a Melbourne street

Wow.. this is quite close to where i work. Every day you see them flying really low to get into Moorabin airport. There has been a few mishaps there lately.

The airport has been there a lot longer than the houses! It is the busiest airport in Australia I believe.

Yes, the nimbys really have no reason to complain. The airport was there before many of them were born.

When I worked at Bankstown, its movement record was around 280,000 per year. You had to book certain flying training sequences through the tower, it was that busy.

I went out to Bankstown a few weeks ago to buy some jet fuel for my heater, and I didn’t see a single fixed-wing movement in the hour I was there. Just one lonely helicopter departing.

As CASA says, ‘empty skies are safe skies’.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

The airport has been there a lot longer than the houses! It is the busiest airport in Australia I believe.

Exactly, close to us too, we are in line with one of the flight paths.
Pickles.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

The airport has been there a lot longer than the houses! It is the busiest airport in Australia I believe.

Around 35 years ago I worked at a place called Datspares. It was located, ironically, in DeHavilland Drive, I can't remember if it was Braeside or Mordialloc. Planes came in or out at around one minute intervals later in the week. Instead of being scared of them, I would look up, when I could, and wish I was up there.

What happened to dreaming????


Well, of course the DeHavilland Dove incident at Essendon did not help.

What bothers me is that all the people who worry about aircraft operations are completely unconcerned about the road incidents outside their airports of hate. Narrowmindedness + hypocrisy.

Originally Posted by johntins

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Well, of course the DeHavilland Dove incident at Essendon did not help.

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Was that a Dove? I do not remember it as such. I seem to remember it was something with wingtip tanks such as a 310.