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Tara Cosoleto

Cloud engulfed aircraft before fatal crash

Pilot Dean Neal was among five people killed in a helicopter crash at Victoria's Mt Disappointment. (AAP)

A helicopter pilot was told to turn around because a "wall of cloud" was approaching, minutes before the aircraft crashed north of Melbourne, a preliminary report into the accident says.

Pilot Dean Neal, 32, was killed along with four passengers when the Microflite helicopter he was flying crashed at Mt Disappointment 60 kilometres north of Melbourne on March 31.

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