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Dragon Rapide Missing In Queensland, Australia  
User currently offlineEZYAirbus From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2003, 2448 posts, RR: 53
Posted (7 months 3 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 1636 times:

A Dragon Rapide aircraft has gone missing on Australias Sunshine Coast after failing to return to Caboolture Airport after leaving Monto where it had spent the weekend at an air show. The aircraft was carrying the pilot and 5 passengers

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au...10/01/police-search-missing-plane/

Glenn


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User currently offlineCrimsonNL From Netherlands, joined Dec 2007, 1618 posts, RR: 42
Reply 1, posted (7 months 3 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 1615 times:		 AIRLINERS.NET CREW
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If the registration in the article is accurate, then it's actually a DH-84 Dragon and not a DH-89 Dragon Rapide.

Anyway, I hope those people will turn up okay. I'm a big fan of classic DeHavilland so I'm quite shocked by this news...

Martijn


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User currently offlineQuokkas From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (7 months 3 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 1554 times:

Quoting CrimsonNL (Reply 1):
If the registration in the article is accurate, then it's actually a DH-84 Dragon
Quote:
It is believed the plane is a vintage red de Havilland Dragon DH-84, built in 1934 and one of only four in the world.

Police are co-ordinating a ground search in the area of the beacon being activated and, in addition to two helicopters, a rescue Dornier has been called in to assist.

More info

User currently offlineQuokkas From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (7 months 3 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1312 times:

As the search continues, it has emerged that the pilot of the missing aircraft had previously been involved in a fatal crash:

Quote:
Mr Porter survived a fatal crash in the same model airplane which claimed the lives of his father and brother in the 1950s.
He was 10 when the plane flown by his father went down in a creek in Brisbane's south in 1954.

Source: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-...for-missing-qld-plane-to-continue/
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