A seaplane crashed off an Australian vacationer island into the Indian Ocean with three individuals getting severely injured and three others stay lacking, officers mentioned on Wednesday.
Seven individuals have been aboard the Cessna 208 Caravan and solely considered one of them was rescued unhurt publish the crash on the Rottnest Island on Tuesday afternoon, the police mentioned.
The airplane was returning to Perth, which is the Western Australia state capital 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of Rottnest Island. The crashed airplane was owned by Swan River Seaplanes, the Related Press reported.
Australia’s aviation crash investigative company, Australian Transport Security Bureau (ATSB), mentioned that specialist investigators have been despatched to the scene to look the lacking individuals and probe the reason for the crash.
A small seaplane has crashed into the water off the coast of Rottnest Island in Western Australia on Tuesday afternoon.https://t.co/eK92BFX7dO
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ATSB’s chief commissioner Angus Mitchell, in an announcement on Wednesday, mentioned that “As reported to the ATSB, throughout take-off the floatplane collided with the water, earlier than coming to relaxation partially submerged.”
A vacationer, Greg Quin, witnessed the airplane crash whereas he was vacationing at Rottnest Island. “We have been watching the seaplane take off and simply because it was starting to get off the water, it simply tipped over and it crashed,” Greg mentioned as quoted by AP.
Greg additional defined, “Lots of people within the water on their boats rushed to the scene and I feel bought there actually, actually shortly.”
The three injured individuals rescued within the crash have been flown to a close-by hospital in Perth with severe however secure situation.
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the ocean airplane crash as “horrible information”. He advised ABC TV that “The photographs would have been seen by all Australians as they awakened this morning. My coronary heart goes out to all these concerned.”
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