Safety alert may not have stopped fatal crash: coroner

The state coroner was not critical of a decision made by air traffic controller John Tucker (right). (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

A last-minute safety alert from an air traffic controller might not have prevented a mid-air collision between two planes, a coroner has found.

Peter Phillips, Ido Segev, Pasinee Meeseang and Christiaan Gobel were killed when the light aircraft collided at Mangalore, in central Victoria, on February 19, 2020.