Victorian man killed in NZ plane crash
The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that an 18-year-old man from Victoria is one of the people who died in a plane crash on New Zealand's South Island today.
The Fletcher fixed-wing aircraft reportedly crashed on take-off and burst into flames at the Fox Glacier airport near the South Island's west coast.
The pilot, four skydiving instructors and three other foreign tourists from Ireland, Germany and the United Kingdom were all killed.
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