AAP General News (Australia)
02-10-2004
Vic: Search for light plane passengers to continue
The search for three people missing since a light plane crashed into a Victorian Lake
on Saturday continues today.
Police say PAUL and THERESA FACCIN and their 10-year-old daughter BREE were on a sightseeing
tour when the single-engine Piper Cherokee they were travelling in crashed into Lake Eildon
north-west of Melbourne about 11am (AEDT) on Saturday.
They were from Ferntree Gully in Melbourne's east.
A police spokesman says the body of THERESA, 42, has been recovered, but PAUL, 43,
BREE and pilot JASON LIND, 35, of Forest Hill, who was a family friend, remain missing.
Police divers, who faced difficult conditions including cold and deep water, today
recovered a piece of wreckage after using sonar equipment to narrow down the search.
Witnesses to the crash say the plane was flying low and clipped powerlines before plunging
into the south side of the lake near Jerusalem Creek.
AAP RTV kw/psm/
KEYWORD: PLANE (MELBOURNE)
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