| Date: | Saturday 20 January 2018 |
| Time: | 17:31 LT |
| Type: | Cessna 182P Skylane |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | VH-TSA |
| MSN: | 18264969 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Tomahawk, TAS -
Australia
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Near Devonport |
| Destination airport: | Private air strip “Boobyalla” farm |
| Investigating agency: | ATSB |
| Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The plane overshot the runway of a private airstrip. A man and a woman were on board.
One occupant died, another was injured. “It was a Cessna and it was coming to land and clipped a tree prior to the air strip,” said a witness, first on scene.
Police said the 2 occupants were visiting the owners of the “Boobyalla” farm when the plane crashed while landing on the private runway.
The woman later died and the man was in a stable condition at the hospital.
23-FEB-2018: ATSB preliminary report released, see link below.
Accident investigation:
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| Investigating agency: | ATSB |
| Report number: | AO-2018-008 |
| Status: | Investigation completed |
| Duration: | 1 year |
| Download report: | Final report
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Sources:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/light-plane-crash-kills-woman-in-tasmania-20180120-h0llim.html https://www.facebook.com/atsbgovau/photos/a.1655527014665323.1073741829.1638364093048282/2020399671511387/?type=3&theater http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/5179647/sheffield-woman-killed-man-in-hospital-after-plane-crash-at-tomahawk/?src=rss#slide=1 ________________________
https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/VHTSA https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHTSA ATSB preliminary report:
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2018/aair/ao-2018-008/ Images:

Photo: ATSB
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
| 20-Jan-2018 15:31 |
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| 20-Jan-2018 21:33 |
harro |
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| 21-Jan-2018 14:28 |
Iceman 29 |
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| 21-Jan-2018 20:56 |
Iceman 29 |
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| 21-Jan-2018 21:08 |
Tasman26 |
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| 21-Jan-2018 21:16 |
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| 23-Feb-2018 06:53 |
Iceman 29 |
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| 16-Feb-2019 11:18 |
harro |
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| 16-Feb-2019 11:19 |
harro |
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