00:00 Emergency crews have resumed their search. They started back at about 7.30 this morning.
00:07 But I'm here at Mount Martha and the seas at the moment are very calm and flat. But
00:12 we can't even see the search area from the shoreline here because it is some 12km off
00:18 into Port Phillip Bay, which is where this mid-air collision occurred just before 2pm
00:24 yesterday afternoon. And we understand that these were ex-military jets that crashed in
00:31 the air. They were Viper S211 Marchetti aircraft that had been out there flying in formation
00:40 and some of the witnesses around this area said that they saw these planes flying quite
00:45 close together before this collision. The website that advertises this charter company
00:52 says that they often use these planes for mock military sort of formations as well as
01:00 joy flights. And sadly, during this mid-air collision, one of them has plunged some 20
01:08 metres down below the sea level. So we know that these waters here are about 20 metres
01:15 deep. The other plane also carrying two people managed to get back to Essendon Airport and
01:21 land safely. But that then sparked a huge search and rescue operation yesterday afternoon
01:28 involving Water Police as well as the Coast Guard. They were out there again early this
01:34 morning. And the Air Transport Safety Bureau says that they are going to look into some
01:41 of the investigation in terms of speaking to some of those people, obviously the pilot
01:47 of the other aircraft, as well as looking at flight data and also maintenance records.
01:52 They have asked that anybody who might have videoed this or witnessed the mid-air collision
01:58 to contact the ATSB. But as I say, of course, because it happened so far offshore, people
02:05 on the shoreline here wouldn't have been able to see it. We spoke to a swimmer who had been
02:10 down here this morning. He says that he lives just on the hill and has a telescope. And
02:14 yesterday afternoon he was even looking through that and couldn't see any of this rescue operation
02:19 that was actually happening. So at the moment, while we are going to see that preliminary
02:24 report take about two months to complete, the immediate concerns were just on being
02:29 able to recover anything from that crash. And yesterday they did actually locate some
02:35 of the debris from this plane.
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