- Date
- October 11, 2025, 10:20 local (Oct 10, 2025, 23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Shell Harbor, Australia
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- VH-JVAPiper PA32
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT)
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- Australian Transport Safety Bureau
- Case key
- 201850
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- VH-JVA
- Reported as
- Piper PA32
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Shell Harbor
- Airport
- YSHL