{"id":114318,"date":"2025-08-03T00:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114318\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T00:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:42:14","slug":"two-feared-missing-as-small-plane-disappears-off-tasmanian-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114318\/","title":{"rendered":"Two feared missing as small plane disappears off Tasmanian coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major search operation is underway in the Bass Strait after a light aircraft with two Tasmanian residents on board failed to reach its mainland destination.<\/p>\n<p>The plane took off from George Town Airport around 12:45pm on Saturday, bound for Leongatha in regional Victoria, with plans to continue on to Central Western NSW.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have confirmed they were alerted by family members around 5pm last night when the aircraft failed to arrive as expected.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Maritime Safety Authority is leading the operation, with Tasmania Police providing helicopter and vessel resources to search the coast near George Town.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43502\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/8b90bac6-96hdvul01scez1v_o5i94\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8b90bac6-96hdvul01scez1v_o5i94.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"8b90bac6-96hdvul01scez1v_o5i94\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Two feared missing as small plane disappears off Tasmanian coast&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/8b90bac6-96hdvul01scez1v_o5i94-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/8b90bac6-96hdvul01scez1v_o5i94-1024x682.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8b90bac6-96hdvul01scez1v_o5i94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"  \/>Two feared missing as small plane disappears off Tasmanian coast<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAMSA\u2019s Melbourne rescue jet is conducting overwater searching of Bass Strait, supported by vessels, including Victoria Police,\u201d a Tasmania Police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidents in Tasmania\u2019s north are advised there will be ongoing aerial search activities in the area today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43509\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/news\/two-feared-missing-as-small-plane-disappears-off-tasmanian-coast\/dfu3yo0fnwszmxsb4dvm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cd5378f4-dfu3yo0fnwszmxsb4dvm.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dfu3yo0fnwszmxsb4dvm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;George Town Airport. Image \/ Pulse&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/cd5378f4-dfu3yo0fnwszmxsb4dvm-300x200.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/cd5378f4-dfu3yo0fnwszmxsb4dvm-1024x682.jpeg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cd5378f4-dfu3yo0fnwszmxsb4dvm.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"  \/>George Town Airport. Image \/ Pulse<\/p>\n<p>Spirit of Tasmania operator TT-Line said the ferry was diverted to the last recorded location of the missing plane but was subsequently relieved from the operation.<\/p>\n<p>George Town Airport, located around 50 kilometres north of Launceston, handles private and chartered aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major search operation is underway in the Bass Strait after a light aircraft with two Tasmanian residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-114318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114962061300642262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}