Two light aircraft collided near Australia’s largest city, Sydney, killing three people on Saturday, local police said.
Australian police, fire and ambulance crews reached the two wreckage sites, located in a semirural bushland area about 88km southwest of Sydney, on foot, confirming that one plane had burst into flames on impact.
Timothy Calman, the new South Wales Police Acting Superintendent confirmed that a Cessna 182 carrying two people collided with an ultralight aircraft from a nearby airfield carrying one.
Witnesses saw “debris coming from the sky” and tried to help, but “there was probably not much that could’ve been done”, Calman said to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He noted both crashes, about 1km apart, were “not survivable”.
NSW Ambulance Inspector Joseph Ibrahim, part of the emergency response team, said to the ABC, “unfortunately, there was nothing they could’ve done”.
The cause of the crash will be investigated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
Further details of the victims have not been disclosed.
Written by Jennifer Amarachi
