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Inquest told pilot complaint made months before fatal South Stradbroke crash not passed on to CASA

A coronial inquest into a fatal light plane crash off South Stradbroke Island has heard a complaint about the pilot making low-level aerobatic manoeuvres months earlier was not passed on to authorities. 

Pilot Martinus Van Hattem and passenger Trista Applebee died when the Yak-52 warbird they were flying in crashed into waters off South Stradbroke Island on June 5, 2019. 

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