Overview
- A twin‑engine Diamond DA42 on a training circuit crashed into Hangar 54 around 2:10pm Wednesday at Parafield Airport, sparking a large fire, an evacuation, and a temporary airport closure.
- The ATSB confirmed the two people killed were a flight instructor and a student pilot, and police said people in the hangar suffered one life‑threatening burn injury, two serious injuries, one minor injury, and six cases of smoke inhalation.
- Fire crews reported that fuel stored in the hangar fed intense flames and the impact broke the hydrant and sprinkler system, which cut water to firefighters and made the blaze harder to control.
- ATSB teams from Canberra and Brisbane are on site collecting wreckage, video, flight data, and maintenance and pilot records, with heavy fire and carbon‑fibre damage expected to slow the search for a cause.
- The hangar belongs to Flight Training Adelaide and housed several aircraft, some destroyed, disrupting one of Australia’s busiest flight‑training sites where many student pilots learn to fly.