Fatal WA light plane crash `on video`

Two men are dead after a light plane crashed while apparently carrying out aerobatic manoeuvres south of Perth. Police confirmed that the two men, both middle-aged, were killed when the "hobby"
plane crashed in farmland east of the Serpentine private airstrip, about 40km south of Perth.

They said they were yet to establish the men's identities or the circumstances of
the crash, which happened shortly before 11am (WDT).
Witnesses said the plane appeared to have crashed nose first, ending up on its roof.
Jacqui Lucas, a trainee pilot from Melbourne, told News Limited she captured the
crash on video and that the footage had been seized by police to form part of a
report for the West Australian coroner.
She was filming her boyfriend flying at the time shortly before the crash happened,
she said.
"On the final approach to land, out of the corner of my eye, I saw another aircraft
that looked like it was doing aerobatic manoeuvres so I started filming that," she
said.
"I just assumed he would pull out of the dive. The aircraft spiralled, went upside
down and then I heard a thud.
"At that point, because I could not do anything, my attention immediately went to
Keiren who was on final approach.
"I was so concerned that he having seen that - I imagined that he had seen all of it
- that it would have affected his ability to land safely."
Ms Lucas said the crash was unsurvivable.
"I just thought no one can walk away from that kind of crash - you can't land upside
down and have a good outcome," she said.
A police spokesman would not confirm if police had taken possession of the footage.