What: single-engine Cessna en route from Mudgee to rural NSW
Where: west of Merriwa in the Great Dividing Range, New South Wales
When: Dec 25
Who: pilot Scott Kennedy-Green and brother-in-law, Matthew Green. Green died at the scene. The pilot survived and was winched to safety at 1 pm, with chest and pelvic injuries, and leg fractures. He is recuperating at Sydney's Westmead Hospital.
Why: The pilot lost control in heavy cloudcover and rain, and crashed in a ravine in the upper Hunter Valley
The piliot set crash site co-ordinates by CB radio but had to spend the night out in the elements as conditions prevented his recovery until 1 pm the next day.
The wreck was located at 10 in the morning Dec 26th, lying upside down with a wing torn off
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