On January 11, 2013 at 10:10 a.m., an Australian Lightwing GR 912 was in Yorktown Tasmania. The plane, an ultralight, took off and nosedived in a vineyard next door to the airport, killing the sixty-five year old pilot.
The cause of the crash on a West Tamar property off Bowens road, just north of Launceston has not been determined.
The Beaconsfield police responded to the scene.