A person aged in his 40s has died after a lightweight aircraft crash in Western Australia close to the South Australian border.
WA Police mentioned the plane crashed about 9.30am on Friday close to Caiguna, a small roadhouse neighborhood positioned alongside the Nullarbor Plain.
Officers and emergency providers raced to the scene the place it was confirmed the pilot had died.
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“The pilot and sole occupant of the plane, a male in his 40s, died because of the crash,” WA Police mentioned in a press release.
“Inquiries are ongoing and the police will put together a report for the coroner.”
Caiguna is about 350 kilometers west of the WA-SA border.
Emergency providers had earlier raced to the distant space however solely confirmed particulars surrounding the crash about 3.30pm Friday.
The Australian Security Transport Bureau advised 7NEWS.com.au the aircraft concerned was an amateur-built Jabiru leisure class plane.
The bureau mentioned it might not examine this crash as a result of it doesn’t probe leisure plane accidents.
