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Status	Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Date	Wednesday 9 November 1988
Time	15:30
Type	Cessna P210N
Operator
Registration	VH-DIH
MSN	P210-00017
Year of manufature
Crew	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Passengers	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Total occupants	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage	Substantial
Location	35km SSW of Dunbar, QLD Australia
Phase	Landing
Nature	Private
Departure Airport	80km SSW of Dunbar, QLD
Destination Airport	35km SSW of Dunbar, QLD
Narrative	A truck belonging to the pilot's company became bogged on the Normanton - Dunbar road. It was on its way to Rutland with materials needed at the property before the rain closed the road until the end of the Wet Season. A Carpenteria Shire grader was available to move the truck and two others also bogged. Unfortunately the grader had two flat tyres and no spares were available on site. Because of threatening rain the pilot offered to fly the grader driver to his camp to pick up some serviceable tubes. After locating the camp the pilot selected a stretch of road which after an aerial inspection appeared suitable for landing. Towards the end of the landing roll the aircraft veered left slightly under braking forces and the left wing tip struck a dead sapling not seen by the pilot during the aerial inspection.

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