Mt Disappointment

Air and land searches are underway for a helicopter feared to have crashed at Mount Disappointment, around 78km north of Melbourne, just after 9.30am on ...

Smoke has been seen billowing across the area where the helicopter is feared to have gone down 'Crews are making their way to the scene and the air ambulance has been dispatched,' Ambulance Victoria said in a statement. Air searches are underway for the chopper, while local search and rescue crews have been dispatched and a command post has been set up at Mt Disappointment, near Whittlesea.

Ambulance Victoria has confirmed it was called to reports of an “aviation incident” at Mt Disappointment shortly after 9.30am on Thursday. The air ambulance has ...

The air ambulance has been dispatched. At this stage, it’s unclear if the aircraft has been found. Dozens of emergency crews are at the scene.

CFA firefighters and paramedics have rushed to search for a missing helicopter north of Melbourne. A helicopter that did not arrive at its expected destination ...

Emergency services are searching for a helicopter feared to have crashed 50km north of Melbourne, on Thursday morning. Victoria Police released a statement ...

Available on Listnr. “Emergency services are in the area searching.” Emergency services are searching for a helicopter feared to have crashed 50km north of Melbourne, on Thursday morning.

Emergency crews are trying to find the location of an aircraft emergency in Victoria. Five Country Fire Authority vehicles are at Mt Disappointment, ...

Emergency services personnel are at Mt Disappointment State Forest after reports of an 'aviation incident'. Ambulance Victoria was called to the incident at ...

The Herald-Sun is reporting ‘police said two helicopters were travelling north in convoy from Melbourne’s CBD when one disappeared near Mt Disappointment’. It is believed the pilot and four passengers were travelling on the aircraft. A ground search of the area has commenced.

A missing chopper that vanished with five people on board has been found at Victoria's Mount Disappointment.

Mr Mitchell said a preliminary report about the crash is expected to be published in six to eight weeks, with a final report to be released once the investigation is finished. It is unknown if there are any survivors. It is understood the helicopter took off from Moorabbin Airport in Melbourne’s south-east and stopped at the Melbourne City Helipad to collect passengers before heading north.

Victoria Police say the helicopter was travelling in a convoy of two from Melbourne's CBD when it disappeared over Mount Disappointment around 9:30am.

"The safety and wellbeing of all of our passengers and people is our highest priority and we have very stringent safety protocols in place." Police spotted the missing helicopter from the air about 11:45am, and have been searching thick bushland in the vicinity of the wreck. Police are searching the wreckage of a helicopter which was part of a private charter that crashed at Mount Disappointment, north of Melbourne, with five people on board.

Chartered helicopter was flying in convoy with second helicopter when it went missing on Thursday morning.

In 1944, two Royal Australian Air Force dive bombers crashed into the side of the mountain which was obscured by a low-hanging cloud, killing five people. Two more RAAF members died in a crash on the mountain in 1942 and another in 1953. The pilot and four passengers died in the crash, police confirmed on Thursday night.

Police confirmed the deaths just before 8pm on Thursday after searching dense bushland for almost 12 hours. The pilot, a 32-year-old Cheltenham man, and four ...

The helicopter lost communication with a second helicopter in low-hanging cloud at about 8am. Five people have been confirmed dead in a horrific helicopter crash at Mt Disappointment, 60 kilometres north of Melbourne. Five confirmed dead in tragic Mt Disappointment helicopter crash

Police rescuers have been winched to a crash site that has been found after a helicopter carrying five people went missing near Mount Disappointment on ...

Police rescuers were winched in to dense bushland after police located the crash site using infrared technology on Thursday morning. Members of the Country Fire Authority are also on scene. Crews have lit a fire to keep warm as temperatures in the heavily wooded area dropped on Thursday afternoon. Two bulldozers and an excavator were working to gain access to the crash site, clearing trees from the difficult terrain about eight kilometres from the hut. Get it here. Rescuers were winched in to assess the site but by Thursday evening it was still not known whether any of the people on board the helicopter survived the crash.

Five people have been killed in a horrific helicopter crash in Victoria. The helicopter disappeared near Mount Disappointment north of Melbourne around 9am ...

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Police believe a pilot and four passengers were on board the aircraft. Specialist search and rescue police officers accessed the site via a police helicopter at ...

The other helicopter landed at Mangalore airport this morning to refuel before returning to Moorabbin Airport this afternoon. Police officers and State Emergency Services volunteers from Whittlesea and Kilmore units are continuing to try and access the site on foot. Specialist search and rescue police officers accessed the site via a police helicopter at about 3pm in an attempt to search for survivors.

Five people — including a pilot described as "highly respected" and four passengers — were killed when a chartered flight crashed in rugged terrain at Mount ...

Each of the two helicopters travelling in the convoy had a pilot employed by Microflite and four passengers on board. Helicopter flight operator Microflite confirmed yesterday that the helicopter that crashed was one of two in a charter convoy being run by the company. Late on Thursday, more than 10 hours after the helicopter that had been part of a convoy of two disappeared, police confirmed that four passengers and a pilot had died.

Go inside the delicate recovery mission to reach the bodies of five people killed in a crash near Mount Disappointment.

The first helicopter landed safely. Police described the scene as “confronting” and have brought in specialist crews to try to reach the wreckage from the ground in the dense bushland. Mr Mitchell said a preliminary report about the crash was expected to be published in six to eight weeks, with a final report to be released once the investigation was finished. The wreckage was able to be viewed from above on Friday and a large blue tarp was covering the site. “It could have possibly been an engine failure, but again, the helicopter has a great safety record and the company does as well, so I think they’re going to zero in on the weather as being a contributing factor to this terrible tragedy.” The cause of the crash is not yet known and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau will send a team from Canberra and Melbourne on Friday to take over the investigation.

One of the five people who died in a catastrophic helicopter crash at Mount Disappointment north of Melbourne has been identified as the chairman of a ...

“Access is very difficult,” he said. He pretty much drove the family in everything; where we were going, what we were doing. Victoria Police has clarified their ages were 59 and 53. Get it here. He had vowed it would be his last job. “Our condolences are with his wife and children, grandchildren and members of his extended family – who are treasured by him – and his friends at this time, and the families and friends of the other people involved in this accident,” a company statement said. He said it would be “some time” before the bodies of the five people who died in the crash could be retrieved. “Dean has always been the most conscientious of professional pilots and always put the safety and wellbeing of his passengers in the highest of his priorities during his many years of professional service,” he said in a statement. “Ian was a respected member of the agricultural industry and a committed family man and will be sorely missed by all that knew him,” the organisation said on Facebook. AXIchain said late on Friday it was with “total disbelief and sadness” they had to announce that NSW finance consultant Ian Perry had also perished in the flight with Ms Woodford. “It’s devastating, but my sister and I were just saying that if she was going to go, this is the way she’d have wanted – on a helicopter, close to the pinnacle of her career, surrounded by all the people she wanted to be with,” Ms van Heusden said. Inverloch entrepreneur Linda Woodford, 50, was remembered by friends as a “high-flyer who wanted to make a difference in the world” after being named as one of the victims of Thursday’s crash.

Paul Troja, 73, was a passenger on board the aircraft, as investigators comb wreckage to determine cause of crash.

Langelaan said there was low cloud over Mt Disappointment when one of the helicopters went missing. Drone analysis of the helicopter’s flight path, and assessment of flight control records and weather conditions, will be part of the investigation. The helicopter that crashed on Thursday was one of two flying business trip passengers in convoy from Batman Park in central Melbourne to Ulupna, near the Victoria-NSW border.

Four men and a woman died when the helicopter they were travelling in for a business trip from Melbourne crashed yesterday morning while flying over Mt ...

We understand at this stage that there wasn’t a distress call,” he said. The ATSB has deployed a team of transport safety investigators from its Canberra and Melbourne offices with expertise in helicopter operations and maintenance, and aerospace engineering, to the crash site. Specialist search and rescue police officers accessed the site via a police helicopter at about 3pm in an attempt to search for survivors. “Our investigation is very complex. Mr Mitchell said the main goal was to look at what occurred and what bought the helicopter down, but also what were some of the lessons to be learnt. Investigators will remain at the site of a helicopter crash at Mt Disappointment, which killed five people, for at least the next three days to try and determine the cause of the crash.