maulonir

The Cairns Post, 02-04-2007, Ed: 1, Pg: 010, 325 words , NEWSNATION
A West Australian man has died in a gyrocopter crash in the state's southeast. The 63-year-old man from Bullsbrook, north of Perth, was the only person aboard the small aircraft when it crashed near the Mundrabilla Roadhouse.


This was in yesterday's Cairns Post, does anyone know if this report is true?
Rob

rotor

Rob,

I noticed it a couple of days ago now in two articles on the web.

Yes I'm sorry to say it is true. The exact circumstances need to be investigated and from the information I have received I don't want to speculate on the reason for the crash.

An unfortunate incident.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=257957
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=24977

rotor

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russ

Sorry to hear about this..........bad news indeed.

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Gyrodes

Hello all,

Posting these images on behalf of my father.... of the crew that left from Bindoon and sadly only 8 will return... my father is driving the truck over for the crew and only 5 minutes before the accident the deceased gave the thumbs up to my dad as he flew by to notify everything was a-ok...

to say the least there were some sad fellas traveling over the nullabour

the WA crew should arrive tomorrow in Lameroo

More photos can be found here:
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q27/garvsVH/Bindoon%20to%20Lameroo/

Regards
Greg Garvin

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Aussie_Paul

Terrible about the accident BUT great pics.

Aussie Paul.

niquenaque

Bugger.

While on a tour of Perth and southern WA I went and met Adrian Stoffels in person at Bindoon and know he is in the crew flying over. He seems a nice bloke and I know this will be affecting him badly as it will everyone else in the same contingent.

My sympathies for the family and the WA gang, it is not nice to soldier on with leaden hearts and the wind out of your sails.

Nick.

Echo 2

Greg,
My condolences to family & friends , a very sad day for eveyone.

Thanks for posting the pics for us.

regards
Eric

bones

Yes indeed very sad news of "...." though im sure he would have been like i am, and wanted the show to go on, and have a drink for him, and a minutes' silence. That would be some thing i would like for me(if and when) any way ,

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twistair

Greg,

Just a word of warning: this webpage at photobucket has a built-in virus - Trojan-Clicker.Win32.Agent.jh
My anti-virus guard nailed it.
This virus isn't that bad - it just mostly organizes unauthorised visits from your computer to other websites to rise their ratings.

As for the rest - my deepest condolence to family and friends. It's a damn hard thing for everybody even on the other side of the Ball.

Alex
www.rotorcraft.ru

Gyrodes

Hi All, I was the driver of Allan Stockdale's truck during this trip. I am informing you that we the Bindoon gyro group thank the Stockdale Family for their support with their encouraging us to keep going to finish the trip to Lammeroo. Our mate Allan is the person in the 4th picture posted in this thread.
Thanks to you all for your acknolegements. Des Garvin

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