Life changing accident leads pilot to new airborne career

Tom Caska and Rakesh Routhu with one of their drones (SBS).jpg
SBS News In Depth
View Podcast Series

Get the SBS Audio app

Other ways to listen

After almost losing his life in a kite-surfing accident, a former pilot started a drone business that’s offered work to thousands of pilots during the pandemic, and is about to start delivering medical supplies to remote communities.

Share

Latest podcast episodes

Children look out at the rubble in Gaza.
Wenn Lawson (Supplied).jpg
A German Shepherd sits on a lawn surrounded by colourful Easter eggs
Ep3 Climate Wars.png

Recommended for you

A very close-up shot of a woman and a 7-year-old boy both smiling and wearing green and white headbands
A row of people standing in shallow waters.
A stylised image of the Australian parliament with a colourful pattern around it.
Image showing a postal vote application form, envelope and mail boxes
Cory Booker walks toward reporters after delivering a record setting floor speech for the US Senate
Donald Trump surrounded by downward pointing arrows and dollar bills
The sun against an orange sky.
A man in black glasses and a navy blue jumper standing side on in an outback landscape