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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting in with with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: You don't normally expect this. When you're out swinging your club.

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Speaker 1: You're trying to work out whether to drag the one

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Speaker 1: would out and all of a sudden you can hear

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Speaker 1: something above and it's an error plane about to land.

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Speaker 2: Mona Veil golf course yesterday two pm. There was a

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Speaker 2: few golfers obviously playing around, and then all of a

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Speaker 2: sudden they could hear a light plane coming over the

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Speaker 2: top of them. This is what happened.

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Speaker 1: Could you imagine the moment you look up and you

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Speaker 1: realize that plane is about to land and has nowhere

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Speaker 1: else to go.

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Speaker 2: Well, one man who was on that golf course is

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Speaker 2: Jason from Golden Fruit, Sydney, and he was right there.

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Speaker 2: He joins us, Now, good morning, jas Yeah, good morning guys, Jason.

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Speaker 3: This is really scary.

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Speaker 1: You must have had a moment where you thought, hang

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Speaker 1: on a minute, is this plane doing stunts? Is it

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Speaker 1: a fly by? Is it a what seems far too

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Speaker 1: low to be normal here?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly what I am when I first saw

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Speaker 3: the plane, because I do have the seaplane going over occasionally. Yep,

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Speaker 3: and it's got a very distinctive sound, but this didn't

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Speaker 3: have that sound at all. It did look like it

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Speaker 3: was flying quite low. So that's why I got the

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Speaker 3: phone out and he decided to start filming, and I

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Speaker 3: sort of banked just over the top of us and

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Speaker 3: came down quite quickly.

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Speaker 2: I know, Jase. The scary thing with plane crashes is

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Speaker 2: that you immediately, I mean we see you see videos

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Speaker 2: of them, you see footage of it from in history.

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Speaker 2: You immediately think the worst with a plane crash. It's

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Speaker 2: not very often people can survive plane crashes. It sort

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Speaker 2: of went over the hill for you, jas, didn't you.

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Speaker 2: So you saw it coming to land and then it's

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Speaker 2: gone behind a hill, did you think, oh gosh, that

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Speaker 2: were you thinking the worst?

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Speaker 3: I was thinking the worst, but I thought I'd keep

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Speaker 3: filming and just keep the phone on. And as I

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Speaker 3: was running towards it, you know, as I sort of

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Speaker 3: came over the crest of the hill, I saw the

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Speaker 3: two people exit from the plane and thought, oh, they

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Speaker 3: were right. You can see they were moving and they

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Speaker 3: were sort of turning his head and just sort of

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Speaker 3: noticed that there was a lot of people around the plane.

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Speaker 3: So you kind of got a pretty the idea that

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Speaker 3: everyone was safe and was out. I mean, there's only

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Speaker 3: a small plane and kind of too so Jase.

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Speaker 1: I mean you're talking about a pilot, an instructor, and

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Speaker 1: a student on board. I mean, how's how good's lesson

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Speaker 1: number one? How did you speak to them at all?

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Speaker 1: The pilot or the student.

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Speaker 3: No, because there was quite a few people around there.

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Speaker 3: I didn't want to be one of those people to

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Speaker 3: just kind of get up in there, grill and just

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Speaker 3: confuse the situation with too many people trying to get

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Speaker 3: close in. There was quite a few people there, so

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Speaker 3: I turned back and we were sort of having a

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Speaker 3: bit of a chat and look from a distance and

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Speaker 3: keeping everyone sort of they were able to walk away. Well,

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Speaker 3: I didn't walk away straight away. It was about sort

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Speaker 3: of ten minutes where everyone just kind of assessed what happened,

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Speaker 3: and you know, once you could hear the sirens and

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Speaker 3: there was there was quite a quick response from the

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Speaker 3: emergency cruse, so they came in quite quickly, and there

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Speaker 3: was you know, there was there's I mean there's two

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Speaker 3: hundred people sort of around the club at that time,

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Speaker 3: so there was a lot of very responsible people there.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I just got out my club and in

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Speaker 3: another shot on the seventh and continued to carve the hole. Well,

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Speaker 3: my heart was racing at the time, so I was

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Speaker 3: quite surprised that that happened.

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Speaker 2: There are there are whispers though, as the plane was

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Speaker 2: coming in you picked up me ball and through it

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Speaker 2: closer to the whole, Jay cheat, Is that right?

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Speaker 3: That's right? You know, you've got to take your opportunities

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Speaker 3: when you can do.

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Speaker 1: You know what else about the footage too, jas is

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Speaker 1: you've run past a woman who's on the green and

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Speaker 1: it looked like she was not going to move.

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Speaker 3: Well, she's actually in a bit of shock. She was

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Speaker 3: quite she was in shock, and she was my playing partner,

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Speaker 3: and she was a little bit taken aback. Her heart

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Speaker 3: was pumping, and you know, I was reading some of

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Speaker 3: the comments on social media sort of having a bit

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Speaker 3: of go there, Oh you just stand there. But I mean,

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Speaker 3: what's what's everyone supposed to do? Jump onto the plane

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Speaker 3: and try and catch it, Welle. Everyone's got an opinion,

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Speaker 3: you know, and.

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Speaker 2: People react differently. I totally understand j shock. Shock, He's

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Speaker 2: a huge thing. The other thing as well, Jase, is

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Speaker 2: that you worry that when a plane comes down that

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Speaker 2: there is a spark and fuel around that the thing

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Speaker 2: can go up. So were people yelling get away from

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Speaker 2: the plane or well, there.

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Speaker 3: Was I think the main thing is what when when

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Speaker 3: the pilot and the trainee got out of the plane,

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Speaker 3: they moved away from the wreckage quite quickly, and everyone

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Speaker 3: was quite sort of quickly moving away, So there was

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Speaker 3: no real sort of danger in that regard from anyone

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Speaker 3: getting injured, you know, because everyone sort of made quite

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Speaker 3: a bit of room quite quickly.

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Speaker 1: Jay said, it lost had it lost power? It looked

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Speaker 1: like it had.

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Speaker 3: It looked like it lost power. It didn't make hardly

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Speaker 3: any sound as it was coming over. You could definitely

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Speaker 3: tell that it was dropping quite quickly. Yep. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure what happened, but I guarantee you who

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Speaker 3: would have lost power because from what I heard after

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Speaker 3: the fact, he was meant to make it all the

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Speaker 3: way to Long Reef, which was he just couldn't make it.

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Speaker 3: So I think you made the right decision and it

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Speaker 3: was textbook. He did the right thing and everyone survived

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Speaker 3: and relatively unharmed.

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Speaker 2: That's one divot that you won't be able to replace

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Speaker 2: with sand the curator there at the golf course, Jase

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Speaker 2: would be a bit upset, wouldn't he, mate.

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Speaker 3: You know what, they're quite amazing down there because they

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Speaker 3: know they're getting smashed all the time with the weather.

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Speaker 3: So this will be a minor fix, you know.

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Speaker 1: So you wonder if the playing gets moved into the

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Speaker 1: car park is a bit of a monument.

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Speaker 3: Well, they could open up a bar inside it or

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Speaker 3: something outdoor bar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, back to the damage. Of course, it

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Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me if it's if the members fleees did

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Speaker 1: go up. This is an excuse just from that.

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Speaker 3: You should get a year.

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Speaker 2: I think your your membership. You should get a free

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Speaker 2: membership for this year for promoting the golf course and

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Speaker 2: looking after him I reckon.

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Speaker 3: Well, either me or the pilot so or the trainee.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you should get a bonus membership. Yeah, we have

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Speaker 3: a good idea. I'll take it up with the club.

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Speaker 1: But also a great distraction technique too when you play

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Speaker 1: next to be able to turn to someone again.

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Speaker 2: Look, you know, Jase, is that the first time you've

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Speaker 2: been in the Manly Observer?

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is actually well done.

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Speaker 1: A great public plane comes down and you're now the star, Jace.

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Speaker 3: I love that yeah, well, you know, just trying to

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Speaker 3: report things in the correct way.

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Speaker 1: No folk news from Jess.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to miss you jas.

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Speaker 1: Keep out the good work mate, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: All right. If you haven't seen that footage, it's up

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Speaker 1: on our Instagram page. You can have a look at

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Speaker 1: the mote of our golf course on the plane arriving

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Speaker 1: yesterday around two o'clock.

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