A man and a woman have been killed in a mid-air collision between two light planes, north of Brisbane. The two aircraft collided close to the ground at Caboolture airfield. The pilot of one of the planes and his passenger died at the scene the pilot of the other plane landed safely without injury. The incident is being investigated by the air transport safety bureau.
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00:00 This afternoon, Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigators from Brisbane arrived
00:06 at the scene. Tomorrow more are expected to continue their examinations. They've flown
00:11 in from Canberra to help understand the circumstances of this crash which has left a man and a woman
00:16 in their 60s dead. Now the ABC understands the circumstances of what happened were the
00:23 passenger aircraft was taking off with the man and woman in their 60s on board. That's
00:28 the Jabiru J430 at the same time that what we understand to be a glider tug was landing
00:36 on a cross runway at the time that they crashed above the landing scene. Police are obviously
00:41 continuing to examine the scene. Here's what they said earlier.
00:45 I'm not able to speculate on exactly where they were positioned when they collided, but
00:50 I believe that it was in the process of landing and/or taking off, but it was close to the
00:57 ground. And Jemima, Transport Safety authorities have
01:01 now released a statement on the collision. What have they said?
01:05 Well Casey, they've begun their investigations and those answers aren't expected to be out
01:09 within six weeks, six to eight weeks even, but they're appealing for people who may have
01:14 been around the Caboolture airfield at the time or even on the Bruce Highway, which is
01:17 not too far from here, to come forward with any dash cam that could be relevant to the
01:22 investigation. Now the ABC understands that one of those planes is registered to the Caboolture
01:28 Gliding Club. Here's what the ATSB had to say a moment ago.
01:33 We will certainly be looking at the circumstances involved, the two aircraft here, experience
01:38 of the pilots and the statage of the wreckage and what was on board both those airplanes
01:43 before we can start drawing any parallels with other investigations that we may have
01:47 done. Now the surviving pilot, that 70-year-old man,
01:53 is being interviewed by police to help them understand better the circumstances of the
01:57 situation. Caboolture Aero Club has also issued a statement
02:01 extending its sympathies to the families of the deceased and we'll expect to see that
02:06 report, that preliminary report from the ATSB within eight weeks.
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