Six people killed after plane crashes into Hawkesbury River


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Six people have died after a seaplane crashed into a Hawkesbury River north of Sydney, NSW Police have confirmed.


The Sydney Seaplanes aircraft was carrying a commander and 5 passengers when it crashed during Cowan Creek, Jerusalem Bay, on a Hawkesbury River about 3pm on Sunday.


Emergency services including a Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter were called to a stage with military commencing a hunt and rescue operation to locate a plane, that is submerged.



NSW Police reliable that divers have recovered a bodies of all 6 people aboard a plane.


“(We will) see if we can redeem a craft tonight or either it will stay in situ … until tomorrow morning,” behaving Superintendent Michael Gorman told reporters on a stage on Sunday.


“We don’t know because a craft crashed.”


The craft was believed to have been travelling from a lifelike Cottage Point Inn to Rose Bay, Supt Gorman said.


The ages and identities of those aboard a craft are unknown.


“(There) positively were people out on boats and on a H2O that is because if people have seen what occurred greatfully hit sea area authority or crime stoppers,” Supt Gorman said.


A Sydney Seaplanes orator told AAP a aircraft was one of theirs and pronounced they were operative with military on a scene.


The Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter found an oil sharp and several equipment of waste on a aspect of Cowan Creek, orator Stephen Leahy told AAP.


“There seemed to be a conformation or outline of a tiny aircraft though it seemed to be submerged in low water,” he said.


“It was positively too low for us to entrance it and that’s because a military divers have been called in.”


The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has announced it will examine a incident.


The company, that has been handling for 80 years, provides flights above and around some of Sydney’s many renouned traveller sites including a Opera House, a Harbour Bridge, Pittwater and a Hawkesbury River region.


Article source: http://watoday.com.au/sport/cricket/no-sympathy-for-faf-du-plessis-after-pretty-obvious-ball-tampering-icc-boss-20161122-gsvbk7.html

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