The aircraft carrying six passengers and the pilot slammed into the water moments after take-off and sank near popular holiday spot Rottnest Island, off the coast of Perth, last Tuesday.

Rottnest Island is a hive of activity during the summer school holidays. Sam Jukic, 14, said he was fishing from a jetty on Tuesday afternoon when police rushed past him. He said shortly after ...

ATSB chief commissioner Angus Mitchell travelled to Rottnest Island to investigate the seaplane crash. Photo: Jason Edwards. “As reported to the ATSB, during takeoff the floatplane collided with ...

A pilot and six passengers were on board when the privately-owned Cessna 208 plunged into the water near Thompson Bay on Rottnest Island, 19km off the coast of Perth in Western Australia ...

Footage posted to Instagram by the flight operator showed 11 people queuing to board the doomed plane at the South Perth jetty on Tuesday morning. “The latest addition to the @swanriverseaplanes ...

Thompson Bay at Rottnest Island, WA ... We saw this boat just speed into the jetty and we’re like, what? And I think the pilot was on it.” Tourist Greg Quin earlier told the ABC he saw ...