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Kingaroy firefighters inspect the cabin and landing gear of the Foxbat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 13, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brisbane couple Geoff and Julie Sheather had the fright of their lives on Wednesday when smoke started filling the cockpit of their two-seater Foxbat ultralight as they were at 6500 feet and heading for Kingaroy.<\/p>\n

The couple had hired the plane for a day’s flying and took off from Caboolture in the morning for a trip to Biggenden, where they had morning tea.<\/p>\n

Then they decided to visit Kingaroy for lunch on the way back.<\/p>\n

But about 10 minutes out from Kingaroy Airport, smoke started coming from under Julie’s passenger seat and began to fill the cabin.<\/p>\n

“I thought it must be an electrical fire so I immediately switched everything off,” pilot Geoff said.<\/p>\n

The couple then spent an agonising four minutes waiting to see what would happen while the plane gradually descended to 3000 feet and Geoff began looking for a paddock to make an emergency landing.<\/p>\n

But then the smoke stopped and the cabin cleared.<\/p>\n

“That’s when I thought it was safe to turn things on again and try for an emergency landing at Kingaroy,” Geoff said.<\/p>\n

“So I radioed in our situation and we flew into Kingaroy Airport.”<\/p>\n

The couple were met by local police, ambulance and fire crews, who were waiting in the airport’s parking lot fearing the worst.<\/p>\n

But as things turned out, Geoff and Julie were able to make a normal landing and emerged from the plane unscathed soon after it taxied to a halt near the airport terminal.<\/p>\n

Firefighters inspected the plane in an effort to determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n

They agreed the most likely cause was an electrical fault which had burned out a cable, but they were unable to determine exactly where the short had happened.<\/p>\n

Later, Julie confided to southburnett.com.au<\/strong> that when her husband told her he had decided to take up flying 12 months ago, she insisted she’d never go up with him.<\/p>\n

“I was scared of light aircraft,” she said.<\/p>\n

“But Geoff did his training at Caboolture and they have top flight instructors there.<\/p>\n

“So once he got his pilot’s licence I started joining him on trips. And until today it’s been a lot of fun.”<\/p>\n

The couple has now contacted the plane’s owner to inform them of the incident, and will wait at the airport until an aircraft mechanic can check over the plane.<\/p>\n

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Julie Sheather, from Brisbane, had been enjoying flying, until today …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Police, ambulance and firefighters attended the incident<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The cowling was removed so firefighters could inspect wiring near the engine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Foxbat on the tarmac shortly after landing safely … this Aeroprakt A.22LS is quite a famous plane, being the 100th factory-built Foxbat in Australia; it is owned by Caboolture Recreational Aviation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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