The light aircraft that crashed into a paddock south of Brisbane, killing a business owner and his daughter, had been fitted out with the comforts of a high-end private plane despite being nearly five decades old.

Built in 1979, the six-seat Beechcraft A36 Bonanza was advertised as offering an “experience like no other” before it was purchased by Queensland charter and aircraft rental company Telford Aviation for $350,000 in 2022.

On Monday, however, the aircraft came down shortly after 11am amid suspected engine trouble, killing 56-year-old Ian Campbell and his 23-year-old daughter, Hannah, in the crash at Chambers Flat, near Logan.

The pair had been airborne for only eight minutes when the flight ended in tragedy. People on the ground said they saw heavy smoke pouring from the engine not long after the plane took off.

Flight data reviewed by the Daily Mail indicated air traffic control at Brisbane’s Archerfield Airport cleared the aircraft for departure at 10.57am, but controllers had difficulty maintaining contact with the plane’s radio, which appeared to be cutting in and out.

The plane then took off, reaching 1,000ft at exactly 11am before a dramatic five-minute descent until it smashed into the field at 11.05am and burst into flames.

The Daily Mail understands Mr Campbell – who owned Barambah Organics and was an experienced flyer of over 25 years – had rented the plane from Telford Aviation.

Public flight records don’t reveal the final destination for the trip. It also appeared to be the aircraft’s first logged flight since July 31. 

The charter company bought the plane four years ago from a retired airline pilot who’d flown it around Australia, including numerous flights over water.

The former owner, a retired pilot, said in an advert for the plane’s sale in 2022 that ‘no expense had been spared’ in its renovation and upkeep since he bought it in 2004.

He had fitted a new engine and also ripped out its interior to install luxury private jet-style face-to-face lounge chair seating behind the pilot, and tailored floor coverings.

‘This aircraft represents a unique, perhaps once-in-a-lifetime, opportunity to purchase arguably the best series of Bonanza,’ the 2022 listing read.

‘A perfect blend of the shorter, faster and better handling wing with no ugly stall strips, 28-volt electrical system, double doors, club seating, rear cargo stowage and more. 

‘They simply don’t make them like this any more.

‘This airframe, paired with the perfect blend of updated avionics while still giving an old school feel, is a joy to fly… There is literally nothing to spend.’

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The aircraft was originally built in the US in 1979 and delivered to Australia the same year on a transpacific ferry flight. 

‘The engine has been operated rich of peak for its entire life,’ the listing added.

‘The aircraft has never been used for circuits, practice engine failure simulations or any training for that matter… 

‘It has always been thoroughly warmed and cooled down, almost never operated for less than a 60-minute cruise at recommended RPM.’

The aircraft’s service record and flight history will now be a focus of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s investigation into the crash.

It is unclear if any mayday radio calls were made before the crash, and witnesses reported hearing the plane’s engine struggling with thick smoke billowing into the air.

Online aviation enthusiasts have speculated Mr Campbell may have been trying to make a controlled landing on the grass after an engine failure, but didn’t make it

ATSB’s Acting Chief Commissioner Colin McNamara said they will likely release a preliminary report into the crash in eight weeks, but a final report could be months away.

‘Three ATSB investigators were on site from Monday afternoon, and they have been examining the aircraft wreckage, including checking for flight control continuity, examining the engine and propeller, and recovering any recording devices – such as avionics equipment or GPS units – for download and analysis at our facilities in Canberra,’ he said.  

‘Once the aircraft and engine have been recovered they will also be available to the ATSB for further examination if required.’

Acting Chief Commissioner McNamara also thanked witnesses for providing ‘important information’ to investigators, after a number of people came forward to describe the aircraft’s engine as sounding like it was running rough or spluttering.

The Daily Mail has contacted Telford Aviation’s director for comment.

The Daily Mail does not suggest any wrongdoing by Telford Aviation. 

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A juror who helped acquit Lindsay Clancy has revealed she changed her position after tense deliberations, saying she was influenced by “big personalities” inside the jury room.

The unnamed juror, now the fourth person from the panel to speak publicly after the murder trial, told CBS Boston she had not followed the closely watched Massachusetts case before she was called for jury service.

She said she initially believed Clancy should be convicted. But even after joining the vote to acquit the mother, the juror acknowledged she “maybe still believes” Clancy deserved prison time.

“Originally, I felt that she was guilty and she was criminally responsible for it,” the juror said.

“Maybe I still believe that [Clancy is guilty], in a certain way,” she added.

Clancy’s murder case for killing her three young children ended in a mistrial after the jury was deadlocked 11-1, with one holdout who refused to acquit her. 

The anonymous juror said that the lone holdout who refused to vote not guilty clashed with their fellow jurors almost immediately, and that ‘the majority of the room was trying to sway that person from the very beginning.’

She said she will ‘defend that individual’ for standing his ground during the tense deliberations, which allegedly included shouting that could be heard from other rooms inside the court.

The fourth juror spoke out soon after three others, foreperson Roni Carlson, Kellie Farina and Paula Devlin, came forward to publicly condemn the holdout who refused to change his vote.

Carlson claimed that the juror, a man who has not been named, ‘admitted he had reasonable doubt’ about Clancy’s guilt by reason of insanity, but he remained unmoved by the arguments with other jurors.

She said she was ‘so excited’ to acquit Clancy, before the holdout juror insisted, ‘but I’m still not going to say she’s not guilty,’ Carlson recalled to NBC Boston.

The anonymous juror told CBS News that despite the national attention and public debate sparked by Clancy’s trial, she was unaware of her case before her jury service because she ‘doesn’t watch the news.’

She described herself as the ‘perfect juror’ for Clancy’s trial, because she does not have children of her own to bias her views, and was reviewing the facts of the case for the first time in the courtroom.

The juror said she initially wanted to convict Clancy, and said she was left devastated by the evidence put forward about how Clancy strangled her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, with exercise bands inside her Massachusetts home.

The worst of the evidence she was forced to review, the juror said, was audio of a 911 call made by Clancy’s husband Patrick when he discovered the bodies of his children.

‘I will never be the same after that 911 call,’ the juror said. The audio was played behind closed doors inside the courtroom and has not been released to the public.

She said she only learned about sick ‘conspiracy theories’ accusing Patrick of murdering his children and framing Clancy, and said those peddling the claims would feel differently if they had also heard the 911 call.

‘If these people could have heard that visceral, blood-curdling scream,’ she said. ‘It was horrifying.’

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While the holdout juror who refused to acquit Clancy was criticized by Carlson, Farina and Devlin, the anonymous woman said their claims that he was alone in his stance are not true.

‘This standalone juror was not the only one that was unwilling to see things from the other side, so I’m going to kind of defend that individual,’ she said.

‘There were some big personalities in that room, but at the end of the day, I feel like it just came down to an inability to move past your convictions.’

She said that her views on Clancy’s guilt evolved throughout the deliberations, as she initially wanted to convict her. 

‘I think this was a woman who was not mentally healthy, she was in the throes of a significant mental crisis,’ the juror said.

‘I really just felt like she was so deep in it that she couldn’t see her way out, and this was the only option.’ 

Ultimately, the juror said she voted to acquit Clancy because the prosecution failed to convince her of their case, and they did not produce a ‘smoking gun’ to send Clancy away.

‘There was not a single moment throughout that presentation of that case that you could say, ‘Oh yep, 100 percent I’m certain she did it,” she recalled. ‘There is too much gray area.’

It comes after Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington spoke on Good Morning America earlier this week, where he pleaded with President Donald Trump to consider pardoning Clancy, describing her as a good person.

Reddington said: ‘I’d like to say that perhaps Donald Trump, who felt compelled to speak out about this case.

‘Mr President, I hope that you would consider this young lady, the type of person she is, what she’s been through, and consider a pardon.’

Reddington also described her as being ‘intelligent’ and ‘hardworking,’ while describing the strong bond he has with Clancy.

‘I do feel a very strong bond with Lindsay because of the type of person she is. She’s such a wonderful, wonderful person.’

George Stephanopoulos questioned the lawyer about his remarks at the end of the trial in which Reddington said he ‘crushed’ the prosecution, asking if he regretted them.

He added: ‘I don’t regret saying it at all. I think that the defense was very strong and I think it went in very well.

‘I think I perhaps could have been a little more circumspect dealing with [prosecutor] Tim Cruz, and instead of saying I crushed him, I could I have said I did a good job.’

Reddington then said that he was open to reaching a deal with Cruz, the District Attorney, so that Clancy did not need to go through another trial.

‘I’m willing to listen to Tim [Cruz]. I’ve known Tim for 30 years. I hope, however, after this trial, that he would revisit that issue and we could work something out that will be acceptable for both sides,’ he added.

People living in the small Oxfordshire village of Piddington, now caught up in the national row over illegal immigration and asylum accommodation, say they are worried that a proposed migrant camp nearby could end up being far larger than first indicated.

Documents that have recently come to light suggest as many as 3,510 asylum seekers could be placed at a military barracks on the edge of the village — a figure well above the 1,256 people listed in the official planning application.

The Home Office, however, has pushed back against those concerns, saying the risk assessment containing the higher number was only an early draft, even though the document is dated March this year.

The assessment, which describes asylum seekers as “service users”, remains publicly available online and does not appear to have been updated or amended.

The revelation has intensified tensions in Piddington, a village of just 350 residents, including 46 children, where locals have been mounting a lengthy campaign against the planned asylum seeker accommodation site.

On September 15, the village will vote in a symbolic referendum on leaving the UK as part of their protests.

Tim McNally, 60, chair of Piddington Parish Council, said his village ‘deserves the truth’ about the number of asylum seekers who will be housed at the camp. 

‘Although the proposal states 1,256 single males between the ages of 18 and 65, the service users focuses on 3,510,’ he said. 

‘That is ten times the size of the village of Piddington. Now if that is an error, correct it. 

‘This is more than alarming. It is either deception at the greatest level or incompetence at the highest.’ 

Residents of Piddington, which does not have a pub or even a shop, have cried foul that the plans for the camp are ‘completely inappropriate’ and ‘impractical’. 

Melise Witkin, 59, a resident of Piddington, previously told the Mail: ‘This is not about being rich or poor, this is about safety. 

‘People have worked really hard throughout their lives to live in this village. 

‘It is not such a rich or poor village. I just don’t think that is a conversation to be had. This is about safety.

‘We are 356 people in the village with 46 children and 1,250 men turning up is a recipe for disaster. People walk their dogs, children play, I just think it is madness.

‘This is about safety, nothing more. Even for them [the asylum seekers], along that road there is no pavement, there are no street lights. We just have to be realistic.

‘They talk about bringing them out of hotels because it is going to be cheaper. This is going to cost millions.

‘So I feel people have chosen for their children to live here, to have that community and village life and I think that will be ripped away from us. You shouldn’t have to feel unsafe in your own home.

‘For me, this isn’t about politics, it is just about safety and the fact that there are vulnerable people in the village. We don’t have a pub, we don’t have a shop, what are the asylum seekers going to do here.’

Karen Joy, lives in Piddington with her husband Derek. ‘We feel we have been ignored,’ she said.

‘We are a very small village and there is nothing for the people in the asylum camp to do. Our worry is that they will wander into our village and the security is nil.’

‘We feel scared. That is all I feel, to be honest. We have a very safe and lovely community. 

‘We won’t feel safe anymore if they can walk down the road and there is nothing to do. Who knows what is going to happen.’

Graham Burchell, who has been farming in Piddington since 1970, said: ‘I agree that everybody should take their share of asylum seekers but our share has become too much.

‘We already have a prison down here, and when we sit outside in the nice summer air, all we can hear is foul language coming from the prison.

‘And not only do we have that to put up with, but there has also recently been a traveller camp set up and they have ignored all the planning regulations.’

Last month, Andy Burnham sparked criticism by saying middle-class areas should also have to house their share of asylum seekers. 

He said he would make sure arrivals were not only placed in the ‘poorest communities’ and ‘all parts of the country need to play their part’. 

An analysis by the Daily Mail revealed that there are 17 local authorities with no taxpayer-supported asylum seekers.

Home Office figures showing the number of supported asylum seekers per local authority at the end of March reveal the areas that currently house no migrants are overwhelmingly rural beauty spots. 

These include the Cotswolds, Derbyshire Dales, Malvern Hills, the New Forest and the Scottish Highlands.

Others include Mid Devon, East Hertfordshire, Ceredigion (a scenic county in west Wales) and Hart, a 118-square-mile local authority taking in major towns, rural parishes and villages in Hampshire.

The Gloucestershire market town of Tewkesbury is also on the list, as are the Isle of Wight, Isles of Scilly, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, Mid and East Antrim and Mid Ulster, and Na h-Eileanan Siar – an island chain off the west coast of Scotland.

A Home Office spokesman said: ‘It is categorically untrue to suggest we are seeking to house 3,510 people at MOD Bicester.

‘As our planning application clearly states, we are considering the site to accommodate up to 1,256 asylum seekers.

‘The concerns of communities are central to our immigration reforms. That is why we are closing every asylum hotel and moving asylum seekers into alternative accommodation, including former military sites.’

For much of her working life, Barbara Butcher confronted death at close range.

Across 23 years with New York City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner, she helped investigate more than 5,500 deaths, among them nearly 700 homicides, and stepped inside some of the most disturbing crime scenes the city had ever produced.

Yet nothing in her long career as a death investigator could have prepared her for the overwhelming scale of destruction at Ground Zero.

More than two decades after the September 11, 2001 attacks — the deadliest terrorist assault in United States history — the scenes she witnessed in lower Manhattan remain impossible for her to forget.

In the days after the Twin Towers collapsed, Butcher was assigned the grim task of recovering tiny fragments of bone from rooftops surrounding the vast field of wreckage.

Those fragments were subjected to repeated DNA testing as Butcher helped oversee the painstaking effort to identify victims.  

Despite the process that is almost impossible to comprehend, the heartbreaking reality is that some of the families who lost a loved one still have nothing to bury.

More than 1,000 of the nearly 3,000 victims have not been identified among the remains, and may never be.

‘So many of the things I saw haunted me,’ Butcher told the Daily Mail.

‘I had never seen that much room, that much destruction, and I had never thought that there would be thousands of people trapped beneath, obliterated, killed. It was inconceivable to me.’

The Twin Towers were struck by two airliners on September 11, 2001, and subsequently collapsed during the deadliest terrorist attack in US history.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed when Islamic terrorists hijacked four planes, crashing two into the Twin Towers and one into the Pentagon. 

Passengers and crew aboard the fourth, Flight 93, fought back against the hijackers before the plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

Butcher was in New Jersey when the attacks occurred, and she fought to get into the city and help her colleagues during the grueling recovery process.

‘That was enormously difficult, and what my colleagues did- clambering across that pile to find remains- was life-altering for them psychologically, and of course, there are the health issues,’ she said.

Butcher explained that during that time she was promoted to Deputy Director of the medical examiner’s office and was in charge of the identification process.

‘For every single remains we brought back, they had to be tagged, examined by medical examiners and forensic anthropologists, and each remains was given a unique code,’ she said.

‘That identification process was overwhelming, and it was miraculous.’

She said that investigators sent families questionnaires with strange questions such as how long a loved one’s toe was.

‘Anything that we could get that might possibly identify a person,’ Butcher added.

Of the 2,753 people who were killed in the Twin Towers, Butcher said that only 60 percent have had their remains identified.

‘When I say remains, I’m not talking about whole bodies or anything that size; I’m talking about the fact that we are taking the tiniest bone fragments found on top of the roofs of the surrounding buildings, and doing DNA testing over and over,’ she said.

‘Each time DNA becomes more sophisticated and better able to extract a profile, they retest the remains. 

‘However, that leaves approximately 1,100 people unidentified. 40 percent of those who died there were never identified. 

‘Their families have nothing to bury, and that, to me, is absolutely heartbreaking.’

Butcher noted that all of the deaths from the attacks are homicides, including those captured in horrific images ‘jumping’ out of the burning building.

‘The terrorists murdered them,’ she said.