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'Electrical fault' suspected in fatal light plane crash

A cockpit fire obscured the pilot's view before a plane crash in northern WA, investigators say. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

Damaged electrical wiring is likely to have ignited a fire in the cockpit of a light plane and caused it to crash, killing an outback nurse.

The nurse was the only passenger aboard the Beechcraft Baron aircraft when it crashed about 800 metres from the runway at Kununurra Airport, in far-north Western Australia, in April 2022.

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