AAP General News (Australia)
12-18-2008
NSW: Plane crash knocks Casula residents for second time
By Caroline Berdon
SYDNEY, Dec 18 AAP - Residents of the Sydney suburb of Casula say the loss of two women,
whose plane crashed into a house, is a terrible shock so soon after a horrific local murder.
The two women died when their light plane crashed into the rear of an unoccupied house
in the south-western suburb, after a mid-air collision with another light aircraft on
Thursday.
The second plane landed safely. Its pilot and passenger suffered only minor injuries.
The planes are owned by two different flight training schools.
Residents of Flame Tree Street, where the plane hit the house, said they were "shocked"
by the tragedy, just two days after Casula was rocked by the murder of service station
worker Melissa Cook.
Ms Cook, 29, was shot in the chest by her violent ex-husband John Kudrytch at a Casula
BP service station. Kudrytch later killed himself.
"Yesterday we had the tragedy at the BP service station. It is definitely shocking,"
said a resident, who wanted to be identified only as Rob, who lives 200 metres from the
crash site.
"The whole street is full with emergency crews and police officers. There's a lot of
residents from the area having a look."
Another resident Kiran Chokkanna, who lives on Flame Tree Street, said the loss of
two lives in the crash was "a great shock" after Tuesday's shooting murder.
"I saw a lot of ambulances and lot of police cars, and a chopper landed there," he said.
"It was a great shock, because a few days back there was an incident in Pine Road, the shooting.
"Because of the noise, at first I thought it (the crash) was a shoot out."
Joey Bernal, who lives on nearby Box Road, said he heard police cars and ambulances
and thought "it was another crime scene".
"I feel bad about it," he said. "Casula is a quiet suburb."
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