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All four people, including two children, onboard a light plane were killed on Sunday after the aircraft crashed into waters off Australia’s Queensland state, police said.
The four-seater aircraft took off from Redcliffe airfield, north east of Brisbane for what was believed to be a “joy ride” but crashed at about 9am local time, said Queensland police inspector Craig White.
It crashed off the end of the runway at Redcliffe, about 32km northeast of the main city of Brisbane.
Officer White said the members of the 69-year-old pilot’s family were at the Redcliffe aerodrome at the time of the crash.
“I understand it was a bit of a family day,” he told reporters on Sunday. “The family are deeply traumatised as you’d expect.”
Police are yet to confirm the identities of another man and the two other children, who Mr White said were “younger than teenagers”, adding that they do not believe they were related to the pilot.
Visuals showed the Rockwell International aircraft floating upside down in Moreton Bay after the crash.
Officer White said the families got…
