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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos

Port Phillip plane crash: Victoria police believe camera operator and pilot were killed after mid-air collision

Camera operator James Rose.
Camera operator James Rose and a pilot are missing after a mid-air plane crash in Port Phillip Bay, near Melbourne. Photograph: Supplied

Police say they believe a pilot and a TV camera operator whose aircraft crashed into the water off Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula were both killed.

Pilot Stephen Gale and his passenger, James Rose, were on board one of two light Viper S-211 Marchetti planes conducting a formation flight that collided mid-air about 1.45pm on Sunday.

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