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Lucky escape: Pilot Graham Hosking checks the damage to his light plane after the crash. Picture: Gary Sissons
Safe and sound after forced landing A MT ELIZA man is lucky to be alive after his light plane crash landed and ended up on the bike path running alongside Peninsula Link, Tuesday 15 November. The crash occurred about 400 metres north of the Robinsons Rd overpass in Baxter. Pilot Graham Hosking said he tried to land on the baseball ground but ran out of space and had to lift off again to clear a fence, then took out a tree before ending up on the bike path after a total engine failure. He suffered a small cut to the leg and a bump on the head in the crash which happened at 11am.
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Mr Hosking, whose father founded the Hosking’s Jewellers chain of stores, suffered an abrasion to the head and a cut on his leg. He phoned his wife who was playing bowls to say his plane had crashed, and to reassure her he was OK. The 1938 model, open-top, single engine plane, from Ryan Aeronautical Company in the United States, didn’t fare so well – suffering extensive damage. Police attended and Tyabb Aero Club crews began dismantling the plane for removal. There was no disruption to traffic.
IT took Frankston retailer and alopecia sufferer Tammy Lobato many years to overcome the sense of isolation that goes with being “different”, so she understands only too well the embarrassment, anxiety and fear surrounding the topic of hair loss. Speaking out last week during Alopecia Awareness Week, Ms Lobato said she lost her hair when she was three due to the auto-immune disease and spent many of her younger years suffering from bullying and feeling alienated. But the former Victorian Labor MP, who runs a wig store in Frankston, said alopecia had made her a stronger person, more compassionate and empathetic, and driven by a “desire to create change and right wrongs”. She regularly counsels younger people afflicted by hair loss, telling them they will develop inner strength and learn skills that will enable them to be effective leaders in the future. “I wore a wig in primary school and I remember children talking about me and noticing that there was something different about my hair,” she said. “Children being children, that point of difference made me a target for bullies, so I grew up learning that I had to be resilient to get through. “It certainly changed my life early on, as I didn’t do some of the sports I would have liked to do, but I just had to deal with it.” Ms Lobato, the MP for Gembrook from 2002-10, opened her wig store 18 months ago after seeing a gap in the market, and describes her new career as “a blessing”. “As an MP I was able to help people,
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Getting wiggy with it: Alopecia sufferer Tammy Lobato at her Frankston wig store. Picture: Gary Sissons
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