SYDNEY: Local officials said on Friday that four people were killed when a light plane crashed in a rural area of Australia’s New South Wales state. Police said that the pilot of the aircraft and three children were killed in the accident.
As per the media reports, the Cirrus SR22 took off from Canberra and crashed around 0400 GMT near the town of Queanbeyan.
Police said that the emergency departments responded to the news reports that an aircraft had crashed and was in flames, with firefighters extinguishing the fire but there were no survivors.
