Pilot killed in ultralight
Pilot killed in ultralight
By Gemma Jones and Jennie Dell
December 4, 2004
RESCUE workers waded through 3m-high sugar cane in a desperate search to find the pilot of an ultralight that crashed north of Lismore yesterday.
Officers from a police rescue squad and local farmers used tractors and quad bikes in a desperate attempt to locate the pilot, in the hope he may have survived the crash.
The Westpac Rescue Helicopter eventually located the wreckage from the air but found the pilot had died on impact.
The pilot, a 53-year-old man from Yamba, near Lismore, was believed to be a former school teacher.
Minutes after the ultralight took off from Lismore airport witnesses heard the engine suddenly cut out.