Helicopter pilot did not hear radio call in Gold Coast crash that killed four – report

The wreckage of two helicopters after a collision near Sea World, on the Gold Coast of Australia. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP

A helicopter pilot said he did not hear a radio call shortly before a midair collision in Australia that killed four people including two Britons, according to an interim report.

Diane and Ron Hughes, from Neston in Cheshire, died in the collision at about 2pm local time (0400 GMT) on Monday 2 January in Main Beach, not far from Sea World in the state of Queensland. The pilot of one of the helicopters and a 36-year-old woman from New South Wales also died.