NSW: Flying school shattered by deaths
18 Dec 2008 5:09 PM
Distraught staff and students at a Sydney flying school are being counselled after two colleagues died in an light plane crash.
Two two women died when their small plane smashed into the back of a home in Casula .. in Sydney's south-west this morning after a mid-air collision with another light plane.
Police say the instructor and student pilot .. both believed to be in their 20s .. died in the Cessna 152 .. which is owned by Basair Aviation College.
The other plane made an emergency landing at Bankstown Airport.
Its 89-year-old male instructor and 25-year-old male student pilot weren't hurt.
Basair Aviation College chief DAVID TREVELYAN says the accident has shocked instructors and students .. but he's unable to give details about the crash.
