Date:	Monday 2 January 2006
Time:	10:45
Type:	Cessna U206 Super Skywagon
Owner/operator:	Brisbane Skydiving Centre
Registration:	VH-UYB
MSN:	U206-0314
Year of manufacture:	1965
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Willowbank, W of Ipswich, QLD -   Australia
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Parachuting
Departure airport:	Willowbank, QLD (YWIN)
Destination airport:	Willowbank, QLD (YWIN)
Investigating agency:	ATSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
At about 1040 Eastern Standard Time on 2 January 2006, a Cessna Aircraft Company U206 aircraft, registered VH-UYB, took off from the parachuting centre at Willowbank, Qld on a tandem parachuting flight. On board the aircraft were the pilot and six parachutists.

The surviving Tandem Master parachutist, who was also a private pilot, reported that, at about 100 feet, the aircraft performed as if the power had been pulled back. The aircraft was observed to bank right, before it impacted a tree and became submerged in a dam.

The aircraft was destroyed and five persons on board received fatal injuries or were drowned. The two survivors received serious injuries.

The five deceased persons were:-
Colin Peter Hicklin (aged 41)
Barbara Frederique McLelland (aged 40 - she died on the actual day of her 40th birthday)
Nigel Dermot O’Gorman (aged 34)
Susanne Elaine Williams (aged 49)
Anthony Peter Winter (aged 22)

1. http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2006/aair/aair200600001.aspx
2. http://www.courts.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/86726/cif-willowbank-aircrash-20081124.pdf [Coroners Inquest report into the 5 deceased]
3. https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/1361516/aair200600001_001.pdf
4. https://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20060120X00099&key=1
5. https://www.pprune.org/pacific-general-aviation-questions/204459-206-crash-into-dam-west-ipswich.html
6. https://www.smh.com.au/news/national/six-feared-dead-in-light-plane-crash/2006/01/02/1136050376945.html

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
21-Jan-2008 10:00	ASN archive	Added
27-Jan-2008 00:30	Andrew Whitton	Updated
09-May-2014 02:23	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
10-Jun-2022 07:27	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]