{"id":42289,"date":"2025-08-04T07:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42289\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:23:09","slug":"search-continues-for-light-plane-missing-over-bass-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42289\/","title":{"rendered":"Search continues for light plane missing over Bass Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"

A search resumed this morning for a light plane that is believed to have gone missing over Bass Strait.<\/p>\n

The plane, which had two people and a dog on board, took off from George Town Airport in Tasmania<\/a> on Saturday, but did not arrive at its destination at Hillston Airport, west of Condoblin in central western New South Wales<\/a>.It was also supposed to have a scheduled stopover in Leongatha in Victoria’s<\/a> Gippsland region.<\/p>\n

It is believed a man in his 70s and a woman in her 60s were on board the flight.<\/p>\n

“Just after 5pm on Saturday evening, concern was raised after the aircraft failed to land in Central Western NSW, after departing George Town, Tasmania at around 12.45 pm,” a statement from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said.<\/p>\n

An AMSA spokesperson said the pilot had made no contact with authorities.<\/p>\n

The search took place yesterday until last light, before resuming this morning.<\/p>\n

\"AnAMSA currently has one of its planes – a Challenger aircraft – involved in the search effort. (Australian Maritime Safety Authority)<\/p>\n

Parts of both Tasmania and Victoria are being searched, with an AMSA aircraft and Tasmania police helicopter today focusing on an area in the Bass Strait and northern Tasmania.<\/p>\n

“Anyone with information is urged to contact the AMSA Response Centre on 02 6279 5700,” a Tasmania Police statement said.<\/p>\n

“AMSA and Tasmania Police urges anyone in George Town or transiting the waters in northern Tasmania and Bass Strait to please keep a sharp lookout for any signs of a light aircraft or its occupants, and if safe to do so, render assistance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A search resumed this morning for a light plane that is believed to have gone missing over Bass…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-42289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}