Two men were allegedly left behind during an organised diving tour,stranded for hours before help arrived.
The Cessna 208 plunged into the sea on January 7 at around 4pm after wobbling during take-off and nosediving into the water 600 metres offshore.
A cold morning greeted swimmers in this year’s iconic Rottnest Channel Swim with local marathon swimmer Max Coten the first athlete to make it to shore.
The sole surviving couple from the Rottnest Island seaplane crash have detailed how their pilot’s safety demonstration saved their lives.
Investigators retrieved the Cessna from the water off Thomson Bay on Thursday morning,beginning the process of working out how it crashed,killing three people on board.
Crowds of summer holidaymakers on Rottnest witnessed the crash on Tuesday afternoon. A leading expert has reviewed the footage and given his opinion on what might have gone wrong.
James Wong,34,died when the Cessna 208 he was piloting crashed moments after take-off on Tuesday afternoon.
As the details of Tuesday’s Rottnest Island tragedy unfolds,memories of the helicopter crash that killed seaplane company co-founder Troy Thomas have resurfaced.
Footage of the crash shows the Swan River Seaplane-run Cessna 208 plane struggling to take off before swaying and nosediving into the ocean around 600 metres offshore.
Rottnest Island/Wadjemup is in many ways everything that Greater Perth is not.