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MARCH 7 2008
A home-built kit aircraft has impacted the sea off Main Beach on QLD's Gold Coast around 1630 hrs -
search underway to locate the machine and 2 POB
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Media reports indicate a structural failure of the wing in the 2-seat ultralight as the possible cause -
search was suspended due fading light
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• UPDATE · 8/03/2008 •
• Search resumed at daybreak - choppy seas have hampered recovery efforts to-date •
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Pilot was 49-year-old Garry Sweetnam from the Gold Coast and his passenger and fellow pilot
was 33-year-old Andrew Mitchell from Murwillumbah
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• UPDATE · 5:00 AM 13/03/2008 •
• Police Divers have recovered the bodies from the Wreck late last night •
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"Some private divers who are friends of the family went out to that location and dived on the site prior to our divers arriving..."
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Media - Brisbane Times
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