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September 2nd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
AAP
Four people, including two policemen, risked their lives trying to save a pilot and his passenger when a light plane crashed into the ocean just off a northern Sydney beach.
The passenger in the two-seater plane, which nosedived into rough seas just off Curl Curl beach around 10.25am (EAT) on Friday, was helped to shore but the pilot’s body was later found inside the wreckage.
Constable Jacob Gow and Chief Inspector Colin Green were first on the scene. After helping rescue the male passenger they swam out to search for the pilot.
“Jacob and I … very quickly, without even thinking, got partially undressed and then swam out to the plane,” Chief Insp Green told reporters at the scene of the incident on Friday.
“There was a person in the plane but due to the depth of the water and not having any diving equipment, we weren’t able to access inside the plane.”
Superintendent Doreen Cruickshank said the plane appeared to get into difficulty as it was flying north across the beach.
“It nose-dived into the water, it stayed on the surface for about a two minutes (and then) sank,” she said.
The passenger is being treated for spinal injuries at Royal North Shore Hospital.
An ambulance spokesman said the 32-year-old man was in a stable condition.
Strong winds, pounding surf and the rugged cliff terrain complicated the rescue of the man who was winched off the rocks in a stretcher.
“Obviously, with coastal winds it is always difficult … it’s difficult to hear with the noise of the helicopter and the surf.
“(But) it looks like it has been quite a clean extrication of the patient,” the ambulance spokesman said.
Police divers retrieved the body of the pilot early on Friday afternoon, but authorities said the wreckage of the aircraft would not be raised from the sea bed until Saturday.
An eyewitness to the crash, who gave his name only as Travis, later told reporters he and another man helped rescue the passenger.
Travis was working at a nearby building site when he saw the aircraft circle overhead before pitching into the ocean at a 45 degree angle.
“Me and another guy … we ran out, swam out, we pulled one guy out, the passenger,” Travis told Macquarie Radio.
“(He) had already popped out, he was sort of floating.
“He couldn’t swim, he’d hurt his back pretty bad so we paddled him over to the shore.”
The man was able to move his feet and legs, Travis said.
Local resident Alison Butler, who was on South Curl Curl beach at the time, said she saw the survivor standing on top of the plane.
“I clearly saw the wing of the plane with the man standing up on it,” she told AAP.
“But it was choppy and when I looked again he was gone.”
A spokesman for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter said crewmen were diving down to check the interior of the aircraft.
Police divers were also en route as the joint emergency services operation continued.
The rescue helicopter spokesman said the aircraft sent a mayday alert before crashing at around 10.15am (AEST).
It disappeared off the radar shortly afterwards.
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