Wednesday 10 August 2022 03:22 PM Family lost in Australian outback is spotted by helicopter trends now

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This is the dramatic moment a family of four was spotted and rescued in the Australian outback after they went missing for 48 hours. 

Their four-wheel-drive was spotted by helicopter on Tuesday after a multi-agency search was launched when the Queensland family did not arrive at their destination - the small town of Packsaddle in NSW.

Darian Aspinall, 27, along with her two children Winter Bellamy, two, and Koda Bellamy, four, and their grandmother, 50-year-old Leah Gooding, left the Noccundra Hotel on Warry Gate Road in South West Queensland between 12.30pm and 3pm on Sunday.

However, a police investigation was then launched after the family of four were reported missing in the desert and could not be contacted.   

The family had run out of food and water when a helicopter spotted their car off-track 50 kilometres south east of Tibooburra, in the far north-west of NSW, late on Tuesday afternoon.