Australia: Divers to seek body of Melbourne plane crash victim

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Divers to seek body of Melbourne plane crash victim

Police divers will today try and recover the body of a man who disappeared after an aircraft sank in a water-filled Melbourne quarry yesterday.

Air safety investigators and the coroner have begun separate inquiries into the light aircraft crash at Heatherton in Melbourne's south-east.

The aircraft ditched into the quarry just after taking off for a short flight across Port Phillip Bay to Point Cook.

Police say the 51-year-old man man was a passenger in the Cessna 210 which now lies in about four metres of water.

A mayday message was not sent.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/nat/newsnat-19mar2000-11.htm

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), March 19, 2000


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