Light plane crash in Canley Vale

[Peter Agatsiotis]

On the news today, a light plane has crashed into a power pole in Canley Vale (not far from Bankstown airport) with unconfirmed reports of 2 fatalities.

[Nigel C]

Just been updated, 2 confirmed dead, although it's unclear if they were on the ground or in the plane. There is a car also on fire, and aerial footage makes it nigh on impossible to tell what type of aircraft.

There is a field across the road from where it crashed, so perhaps they had an engine failure and were trying to put it down there? Only time will tell.

[Greg Hyde]

Crash occurred on Carnley Vale Rd.

Two confirmed dead. Unable to confirm whether those losr were on the a/c or ground.

A/c was a Piper Chieftan.

Greg

[Trevor Sinclair]

SMH website now has a pic of the location, Canley Vale Primary School has been evacuated due to the fuel spill. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/two-dead-i...0615-yasn.html

[Bruce Bramwell]

Only one person has lost the life

[Greg Hyde]

Latest from ABC

Eyewitness reports aircraft was suffering engine problems before crash.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...15/2926951.htm

[Robert Zweck]

http://www.news.com.au/national/ligh...-1225879744477

[Greg Hyde]

From another forum.

According to ATSB -

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The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) was advised of an aircraft accident involving a Piper Aircraft Mojave aircraft, registered VH-PGW, this morning. The aircraft had two pilots on board and had recently departed from Bankstown Aerodrome, New South Wales. The pilot reported to air traffic control that the aircraft had sustained an engine failure and would be returning to Bankstown. Shortly after the aircraft impacted terrain in the vicinity of Canley Vale Road and Sackville Roads, Canley Vale Heights.

Aircraft operated by Airtex.

[Robert Zweck]

If Hoxton Park was still open, I wonder if that could have been one of his options?

Next thing we hear will be the closure of Camden.

[Matt Coughran]

What a tragic event. My condolences to the family/families involved in this. By the looks of all reports the Pilot did his best to land the aircraft safely.

But also reading on one of the new reports some people really don't know anything about aircraft....

Ms Weir said that she walked to the crash area to find out what was happening and smelt petrol fumes.

"We were saying earlier that planes fly very low over this area," she said. "The Bankstown Airport is not far away and we always thought this was an accident waiting to happen."

An Accident waiting to happen? Since when did a plane flying low to land/take off at an airport posed such a massive risk that she knew it was going to happen?