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Month: September 2008

  • Plane crashes on landing at Adelaide Airport, South Australia

    Plane crashes on landing at Adelaide Airport, South Australia

    Adelaide, South Australia – Saturday 27th September 2008

    In front of about a thousand spectators, the King Air B200 Twin Engine Corporate Charter VH-URU on a charter flight from Adelaide to Kangaroo Island crash landed on Runway 30 (South East to North West runway). No-one was injured with passengers praising the work of the pilot.

    The large crowd was at the airport to see the new Qantas A380 Airbus arrive for the first time at Adelaide and where treated to a perfectly executed crash landing of the twin engine King Air.

    It circled the airport for some 30 minutes to burn of fuel before doing a low level pass along the runway to steady in the gusty winds before landing on its belly skidding to a very quick stop.

    The video shows the approach and crash followed by the passengers escaping and emergency services quickly approaching. Sorry for the slightly bumpy footage. It was really an opportunistic shoot with no time to set up with tripod etc as I’m sure you can imagine.

  • New version of Banksia Park Weather online!

    Click here for Banksia Park Weather
    Finally got around to changing the Banksia Park Weather Station site to its new version moving the Flash movie off to a sub page and using JavaScript to keep the ‘static’ page updated every 25 seconds. It’s got more features and more useful areas including a longer range forecast from Weather Underground, access to radar, warnings from the BOM, and will allow me to grow the informational part of the site that explains weather in simple terms. The version on-line now is just the start.

    So if you’re living in any of the following suburbs, it’s probably the closest site to get temperature, humidity, barometer or pressure, wind direction and speed, and a whole host of other information on the weather :

    • Banksia Park, South Australia, 5091
    • Tea Tree Gully, South Australia, 5091
    • Vista, South Australia, 5091
    • Fairview Park, South Australia, 5126
    • Yatala Vale, South Australia, 5126
    • Surrey Downs, South Australia, 5126
    • Redwood Park, South Australia, 5097
    • St Agnes, South Australia, 5097
    • Ridgehaven, South Australia, 5097
    • Houghton, South Australia, 5131
    • Lower Hermitage, South Australia, 5131
    • Modbury, South Australia, 5092
    • Modbury Heights, South Australia, 5092
    • Wynn Vale, South Australia, 5127
    • Golden Grove, South Australia, 5125

    Click on the image at the top of this to be taken to the Banksia Park Weather Station or click on this text.