Never been keen on planes and ferris wheels? I know why

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Update:
Many MSM outlets are reporting it as an "ultralight aircraft", perhaps they should get their terminology correct. It's a light aircraft.
And  a bloody strong ferris wheel!

Red Bull air crash in the Swan River

Read more here.

Good news is that the pilot, Adilson Kindlemann aged 37, is in good condition. He was passing through a narrow gate, a manoeuvre which involves flying the plane with wings at rightangles to the earth. His wing clipped the water and the plane crashed into the water.

GOOSEBUMPS

Watching the special on 7 about the Plane on the Hudson.

Brace for Impact: Inside The Hudson Plane Crash

This is a wonderful story of survival, I had goosebumps when I saw it after it happened, and the goosebumps are back again!

Plane Crash on the Hudson - happy news

No one has been killed or seriously injured.

Although the morning announcer on ABC asked how the people got out of the plane....

d'oh, through the emergency exits I'd reckon

Better picture here.

"Indications are that there was a large flock of birds in the area," she said. Officials will investigate whether the plane hit the birds, disabling the engines and forcing the plane into a controlled crash.

Light plane crash in Casula, Sydney

Two planes have collided in Sydney, one plane crashed near Casula and the other managed to fly back to Bankstown Aerodrome. Two dead.

More.

I used to live near Bankstown Aerodrome. Planes take off there every 30 seconds.

Derek Darlow, a former mechanical engineer at Hoxton Park Airport, which closed this Monday, said that the planes were probably coming in to land at Bankstown Airport.

"There is an inbound reporting point in Prestons, which planes have to pass over before they land at Bankstown Airport and the planes were probably passing over that when they clipped each other,'' Mr Darlow said.

"Now that they've closed Hoxton Park Airport, there are fewer places for these planes to land and this sort of thing will be happening more and more often.''

The two planes involved, according to Bankstown flight school operators, were a Liberty and a Cessna 152.