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Laine Clark

Plane crash may be due to aerobatics: ATSB

The ATSB says a Gold Coast plane crash may have been caused by the pilot attempting aerobatics. (AAP)

Investigators say a fatal plane crash off the Gold Coast may have been caused by the pilot attempting low level aerobatics.

Pilot Marcel van Hattem, 52, and passenger Trista Applebee were killed when the Soviet-era Yak 52 plane crashed into the water near South Stradbroke Island in June 2019.

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