Four people are dead after two light planes, one of them a training flight, crashed mid-air near a regional Victorian airport. Emergency services were called to two separate crash scenes near Mangalore Airport about 11.30am on Wednesday. Police believe the two aircraft collided mid-air before crashing to the ground and the four people would have died immediately. "One plane almost certainly crashed immediately and the other plane crashed about two kilometres north from here and both were extensively damaged prior to colliding with the ground," Mitchell Local Area Commander Inspector Peter Koger told reporters. Mangalore Airport and Moorabbin Aviation Services declined to comment.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 19, 2020 03:45 UTC