QLD: Couple die as plane piloted by nephew crashes

AAP General News (Australia)
01-10-1999
QLD: Couple die as plane piloted by nephew crashes

(EDS: Corrects name of airport. Also corrects spelling of witness Matthew Clarke's name.
Adds further detail.)



By Selina Day

BRISBANE, Jan 10 AAP - A Melbourne couple's joyflight over Queensland's Sunshine Coast
turned to tragedy today when the light plane being piloted by their nephew crashed and broke
in half, killing the couple.

The single-engined Cessna 172 nosedived into the ground at Sunshine Coast Airport at
Maroochydore, killing 59-year-old John Walter Berridge instantly and fatally injuring his wife
Dorothy …