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The pilot of a light aircraft was conducting a touch-and-go manoeuvre when he crashed at Parafield Airport this week, the ATSB’s chief commissioner has said.
Speaking to Sunrise, Angus Mitchell said the student pilot – identified in The Advertiser as 21-year-old Youngin Kim – was “very fortunate” to have escaped uninjured in the accident, which saw the Cessna 172M Skyhawk, understood to be registered VH-LG,E burst into flames, sparking a grass fire.
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“They’ve bounced heavily on their first go of touching down the runway, then in that sequence of trying to then lift off and apply power, there’s been insufficient air speed that’s caused the left wing to stall and to come down and impact with the runway there,” Mitchell said.
“Now fortunately, the pilot has extracted themselves, moved away around 30 seconds after that collision with the ground there. The aircraft has then caught fire and [was] subsequently completely destroyed.
“At this stage, we’ll start to look at the aircraft itself and then get a little bit more detail around exactly the experience – we know it was very low – but the experience of the pilot, what was being planned on the day, and what led to it losing that air speed which has led to the collision.”
Kim, who is believed to have been undergoing circuit training at the time, told The Advertiser after the crash that he had around 20 hours of flight experience.
“I just want to move on, I just want to learn more. I just realised I need to know … about the plane stalling or landing,” he said.
“I just want to train more and I’ll be better next time.”
Mitchell said that while there is a risk for student pilots on solo flights, it is “good to be investigating an incident without a catastrophic outcome”.
“We’re still gathering information to determine exactly the nature and the extent of the investigation, but we do know that student pilots in solo flights do present a certain risk, and we see around 20 accidents and incidents every year with student pilots doing solo flights.”
“We need to understand exactly what occurred here. We’ve got a good idea of the circumstances around it, but there’s a couple of things that we need to look into before we can determine the extent of an investigation.”
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