Collision with terrain involving a Gippsland Aeronautics Pty Ltd GA-200, VH-SAV, 9 km south-south-east of Lucindale, South Australia, on 26 May 1997

The pilot was conducting his first commercial agricultural spraying operation and had been operating on the task for several hours in the afternoon. He was asked by the farmer who owned the property being sprayed, to avoid spraying in the dam on the paddock. Whilst the pilot was attempting to identify the dam, the aircraft's left wing clipped the top of a tree, and the aircraft descended steeply into the ground. The pilot was able to escape from the wreckage, having sustain soft tissue damage, fractures to lower vertebra and both ankles dislocated.