Five people are feared to have died on a government charter flight after the wreckage of a light aircraft was found near the Cape York community of Lockhart River in far north Queensland.
It is understood the 10-seat plane had attempted to land at Lockhart River in wild weather about 9.30am on Wednesday.
Queensland police confirmed on Wednesday afternoon they had found the wreckage on a beach about 5km to the east of the Lockhart River airstrip.
The Courier-Mail has reported five people were on board, though the number remains uncertain. It is also unclear whether anyone survived.
The plane, believed to be a Cessna 404 twin-engine piston aircraft, was found on the beach about 1.20pm.
The Cape York area, mostly populated by remote Indigenous communities, is in the same region where the Bureau of Meteorology has warned of high winds and flooding rains due to a tropical low that is expected to develop into a cyclone over the Coral Sea at the weekend.
Such charter flights are commonplace for government service delivery to remote communities.
source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/11/queensland-plane-crash-feared-dead-in
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