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.