Qld: Divers may investigate seabed object thought to be crashed plane

AAP General News (Australia)
08-19-2004
Qld: Divers may investigate seabed object thought to be crashed plane

BRISBANE, Aug 19 AAP - Police divers will today decide whether it is safe to investigate
a large object found on the seabed off Queensland's Sunshine Coast that could be the fuselage
of a missing plane.

Special sonar equipment located the object yesterday, which police believe could be
the fuselage of a plane which crashed into the sea at the end of a flight from Cobar in
NSW.

There has been no sign of pilot 54-year-old Barry Coventon, who is believed to have
died in the crash.

A police spokesman said divers would today assess whether conditions were suitable
for them to go down and investigate the object.

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KEYWORD: PLANE

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