Light aircraft crash in Australia kills 2 children, 2 adults

SYDNEY — Four radical including 2 children died connected Sunday aft a airy craft crashed into the oversea adjacent the seashore of Australia’s Queensland state.

Police said the aircraft, a four-seater Rockwell, crashed disconnected the extremity of a runway astatine Redcliffe, astir 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of the main metropolis of Brisbane.

Divers recovered the bodies of 2 adults, including the 69-year-old antheral pilot, and 2 children from the upturned wreckage adjacent to the shoreline, constabulary Inspector Craig White told reporters.

White said the children’s ages were not instantly disposable but they were younger than teenagers.

Australian Transport Safety Bureau main commissioner Angus Mitchell said his enactment is investigating. He said aboriginal reports suggested that the clang occurred not agelong aft takeoff.