The safety regulator finds that charter company Air Frontier's efforts did not adequately mitigate the weather-related risks involved in a flight that crashed outside Darwin in 2017, killing its two young pilots.
Two young pilots killed in a light plane crash on the edge of Darwin did not have the wet season experience to be safely flying alone, according to an investigation by the regulator.A report has found two pilots killed in a crash outside Darwin had"no experience" flying in the Top End"build-up" weather conditions
Darcy McCarter, 23, and Daniel Burrill, 33, died when their six-seater, single-propeller Cessna 210 crashed on Darwin's outskirts shortly after take-off in October 2017. The report found that the pilots' combined lack of Top End wet season flying experience was likely to have affected their weather-related decision-making in the air.
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