'Mate, I've got $1000': Aussie man hires a chopper in frantic search to find son.
It was early Monday morning and his 17-year-old son Samuel was missing.
"We got back into Newcastle about 1.30am [Monday morning] and went straight to the police station," Lethbridge said.
SIMONE DE PEAK/SMH Tony Lethbridge, who found his son's crash site by helicopter.
He had messaged his girlfriend and arranged to meet her at the family home at Blacksmiths after she finished work around lunchtime.
"That was in my head, so I just thought bugger this I'm not going to sit around and wait.
"He told us it was for missing son and said he believed his son had run off the road somewhere.". »