Current Affairs: Sydney plane victims named

Body of a passenger aboard a seaplane that crashed is brought ashore.

The passengers killed in a Sydney seaplane crash have been identified as a UK CEO and his family. (AAP) Source: AAP

Tributes continue to flow this morning for the six victims of the Sydney seaplane crash on New Year's Eve (Dec 31). Millionare 58-year-old businessman Richard Cousins was also identified by police as the C-E-O of the world's largest food catering company - Compass Group - and one of the victims in the crash. He died along side new fiancée Emma Bowden, her 11-year-old daughter Heather and his sons, Ed, 23, and William, 25, when the flight crashed into Hawkesbury River, Jerusalem Bay.



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