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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Elias Visontay Transport and urban affairs reporter

Tributes paid to pilots who died in mid-air collision south-west of Sydney as crash investigation begins

Police and firefighters attend wreckage near Belimbla Park, NSW.
Police and firefighters attend the wreckage of a plane crash near Belimbla Park, NSW. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Tributes have been paid to the pilots who died when two small planes crashed in mid-air in Sydney on Saturday, as investigations into the crash that killed three commenced.

Off-duty Qantas captain and grandfather Gary Criddle, 72, has been identified as the pilot of the Cessna 182 which had left Cessnock, near Newcastle, on its way to Shellharbour, near Wollongong. It collided with a Jabiru being flown by Khadervali Gagguturu, 60, which had taken off from Oaks airfield in south-west Sydney.

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