Recent tourist air tragedies in Australia

Tourist air tragedies in Australia in the last two years.

RECENT TOURIST AIR TRAGEDIES

* 2018: Two elderly Americans died when a helicopter crashed into the ocean near Queensland's Whitsunday Islands on March 21.

* 2017: Six died, including five British tourists, when a seaplane crashed into the Hawkesbury River in NSW on December 31.

* 2017: Four Americans on a golfing holiday and a Victorian pilot died when a small plane crashed into a DFO shopping centre soon after take-off from Essendon Airport on February 21.

* 2017: A UK woman died in a light plane crash on Middle Island, near the town of 1770 in Queensland, on January 10.


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