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A salvage crew removes the wreckage of a light plane from the ocean on Friday afternoon after it came down just off Perth's Leighton Beach in North Fremantle.

The coroner says Liz Thomas has unique capacity and knowledge as a spouse and a pilot, and will likely be called to an inquest into the 2020 plane crash that killed five men in far north Queensland.

Investigators were not able to determine with certainty that Gold Coast pilot Martinus van Hattem was completing an aerobatic manoeuvre immediately before the fatal crash off South Stradbroke Island in 2019, but it was considered a possibility.

Australia's national transport safety investigator says a US kit-built plane crashed in southwest Sydney after a short maiden flight.

A light plane crash that claimed the life of a young pilot and his single passenger on Christmas Eve last year happened amid severe thunderstorms and lightning strikes, early investigations have revealed.

Michael James, a SeaWorld helicopter pilot in the aircraft less severely affected in the crash, said he saw five passengers boarding the second helicopter in Australia's Gold Coast

The ship's master and second mate on the bulk cement carrier vessel which crashed into and sank two tugboats in Tasmania's north-west last year had not undertaken required training, a safety regulator's report finds.

Ian McBeth was one of three US firefighters killed when the C130 large air tanker they were were flying crashed during Black Summer.

A pilot "did not recall" his fellow pilot making a standard taxiing call to say he was taking off before their helicopters collided and crashed in Australia, tragically killing four people and injuring nine others