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Husband-and-wife team Ian and Connie Warburton won the competition in their 1974 Piper Cherokee 140. The event saw 86 entrants fly a total of 3,800 kilometres across three different states.
The 2022 race — which did not go ahead in 2021 due to COVID — sees 100 competitors fly a total of 3,800 kilometres across three different states.
The incident occurred on Monday morning, and the pilot was taken to the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle.
The two injured passengers adopted a deep squat position as the balloon came down 2km south of Lilydale Airport, Victoria.
On Friday, organisers of the revived “Red Bull” Air Race said this year’s comeback event would be scrapped. Malaysia and Indonesia were already pencilled in to hold a leg, with a further race taking place at Lake Macquarie in NSW.
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