Most recently she covered breaking news for The Age, and before that for The Australian in Melbourne. Two planes with trainee pilots on board were believed to be moving through cloud when they collided in mid-air before hurtling to the ground and killing four people in Central Victoria.The planes collided about one kilometre from Mangalore Airport on Wednesday morning, with both aircraft suffering extensive damage before crashing into grassland, killing two people in each plane.Authorities believe the aircraft collided at an altitude of about 4000 feet.
"She said it looked like it was "spiralling out of control in the distance". At the time of the collision, the cloud base was also about 4000 feet. The crash site was about seven kilometres south from a flight training school at Mangalore, near Seymour.
Airport: Mangalore Airport Date: May 22nd 2010. Most recently she covered breaking news for The Age, and before that for The Australian in Melbourne.
The two planes collided at about 4000ft above sea level, at the popular recreational flying spot of Mangalore, before crashing to the ground.“Two occupants in each aircraft have died at the scenes,” Victoria Police said in a statement.All four people, whose bodies were found among the wreckage, are yet to be formally identified.It is understood one man aged in his 30s and another in his 40s were on one of the planes, a privately-owned Beechcraft Travel Air D95A operated by the Peninsula Aero Club at Tyabb.The two men were qualified as instructors and were conducting a training flight, Peninsula Aero Club president Jack Vevers said.“One plane almost certainly crashed immediately and the other plane crashed about two kilometres north from here and both were extensively damaged prior to colliding with the ground,” Mitchell local area commander Inspector Peter Koger told reporters.Victoria Police confirmed that one aircraft was a training flight with both an instructor and a trainee on board.“It is a big tragedy for both families, I know it is a training flight, it is very upsetting for everyone including emergency services who have attended this scene today,” Inspector Koger said.Inspector Koger said there were witnesses to the planes colliding and one of the aircraft coming down.“There were some people in the paddocks at the back of this facility and there was also a helicopter in the air and we’re working with them to get witness statements,” he said.Police and paramedics responded to reports of the light plane crash, 120km north of Melbourne, at about 11:30am.The crash site is about seven kilometres south of Mangalore’s busy airport, where there is a major aviation-training facility and pilot academy.One of the planes was a Piper-Seminole aircraft operated by flying school Moorabbin Aviation Services that had departed from Moorabbin.The other was a Beechcraft Travel Air, operated privately out of Tyabb, on the Mornington Peninsula.Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) spokesman Peter Gibson said they were operating on instruments, meaning the pilots were flying visually and would have lodged flight plans before takeoff.“We don’t have any explanation of what happened. Air Marshal (Retired) Bhushan Gokhale, who investigated the Mangalore plane crash in which around 158 passengers were killed in 2010, listed possible causes behind the Kozhikode plane tragedy and stated that inquiry panel will go into detailed issues related to the mishap. On 22 May 2010, a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet operating Air India Express Flight 812 from Dubai to Mangalore, India, crashed on landing at Mangalore. 'Tragedy': Four dead after two planes crash in mid-air over central VictoriaThe site of one of the fatal plane crashes near Mangalore Airport.Police are investigating the cause of the fatal mid-air collision. Four people are dead after a mid-air collision between two planes at Mangalore, north of Melbourne.Emergency services are responding to a plane crash at Mangalore.Four people are dead after two planes collided mid-air before crashing into a paddock north of Melbourne this morning.
And the crash of the airline's plane in Kozhikode on Friday is a stark reminder of that accident ten years ago.
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