A aircraft has crashed into the water on a distant chain of islands with seven individuals on board.
The mild aircraft, a Gibbs Airvan GA8, overshot the runway on the southern finish of Rat Island, which kinds a part of the Abrolhos Islands in WA, about 8.40am Thursday.
The plane ended up partially submerged with the engine within the water.
The pilot and 6 passengers on board on the time are understood to have been unhurt within the crash, however have been nonetheless taken to an area nursing publish as a precaution.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau will examine.
The island chain, often known as the Houtman Abrolhos, is about 80km west from the coastal WA metropolis of Geraldton.
Rat Island is one in every of 122 islands that make up the Abrolhos, together with coral reefs.
The Abrolhos was the positioning of the wreck of the Batavia in June 1629, when the Dutch East Indiaman struck reefs.
Of 341 individuals aboard on the time of the maiden voyage, solely 122 survived following atrocities dedicated by a small group of mutineers who took the crash survivors captive.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
