Divers prepare to refloat sunken seaplane after six people killed in Hawkesbury crash
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Police dive crews are preparing to refloat the wreckage of a seaplane that crashed into a NSW river, killing all six passengers.
The plane, which went down in Cowan Creek, north of Sydney on Sunday, will need to be brought back to the surface before forensic air-crash investigators can piece together what went wrong.
Emergency services including the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter were called to the scene and launching a search and rescue operation was immediately launched to locate the plane, which is 13 metres underwater.
They recovered the last of the six bodies as night fell.
The plane was believed to have been travelling from the picturesque Cottage Point Inn to Rose Bay, Supt Gorman said.
The ages and identities of those aboard the plane are unknown.
A Sydney Seaplanes spokesman told AAP the aircraft was one of theirs and said they were working with police on the scene.
The Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter found an oil slick and several items of debris on the surface of Cowan Creek, spokesman Stephen Leahy told AAP.
“There appeared to be a silhouette or outline of a small aircraft but it appeared to be submerged in deep water,” he said.
“It was certainly too deep for us to access it and that’s why the police divers have been called in.”
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has announced it will investigate the incident.
The company, which has been operating for 80 years, provides flights above and around some of Sydney’s most popular tourist sites including the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, Pittwater and the Hawkesbury River region.
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