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SYDNEY (AP) — Three men died after two light planes collided
midair and crashed into a forested area southwest of Sydney on
Saturday.
Australian police, fire and ambulance crews reached the two
wreckage sites, located in a semirural bushland area about 55
miles southwest of Sydney, on foot. One plane had burst into
flames on impact.
New South Wales Police Acting Superintendent Timothy Calman
confirmed that a Cessna 182 carrying two people collided with an
ultralight aircraft from a nearby airfield carrying one.
Further details of the victims have not been disclosed.
Witnesses saw “debris coming from the sky” and tried to help,
but “there was probably not much that could’ve been done,”
Calman said to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . He
noted both crashes, about one kilometer apart, were “not
survivable.”
NSW Ambulance Inspector Joseph Ibrahim, part of the emergency
response team, said to the ABC, “unfortunately, there was
nothing they could’ve done.”
The cause of the crash will be investigated by the Australian
Transport Safety Bureau.
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