TWO men have died after a microlight plane crash less than a kilometre from a regional airport in Victoria’s North.
The ultralight plane went down near the Yarrawonga airfield shortly after 3.30pm on Sunday.
Police and air ambulance as well as volunteers from five CFA brigades rushed to the scene but were unable to revive the two men, who are both from Yarrawonga.
The site is now in the hands Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigators.
Yarrawonga Aerodrome manager Peter McLean told the Herald Sun the men, both experienced pilots, had been performing flight manoeuvres around the airstrip when their XT-912 Arrow struck the ground.
“I was just out of sight but I heard a loud noise and told the police over the radio there had been a crash,” he said
(Culled from heraldsun.com.au)
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