Phones may hold clues to plane horror
INVESTIGATORS probing the deaths of six people in a seaplane crash in Australia hope victims’ smartphones will reveal what caused the plane to ditch.
They plan to recover the aircraft from the riverbed in the next 48 hours and hope the phones may provide vital clues.
Richard Cousins, 58, his sons Ed, 23, and Will, 25, his fiancee Emma Bowden, 48, her daughter Heather, 11, and pilot Gareth Morgan, 44, all died.
It has emerged there was a heroic attempt to rescue them. Will McGovern said he was in a boat with three friends who jumped into the river north of Sydney.
Will said: “It was an extraordinary level of bravery my mates showed getting in the water.”