Two pilots have died after a helicopter collision in Western Australia

Two pilots have died when their helicopters collided in Western Australia’s Kimberley region.

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00:00Two pilots have been confirmed dead after their helicopters collided in Western Australia's

00:07Kimberley region early this morning.

00:10Police say they received a report of a crash at about 6.20 this morning near Mount Anderson

00:15Station which is about 120 kilometres south of Derby.

00:19Police say both pilots, a 29-year-old man and a 30-year-old man, have died.

00:25Police say each of the two cattle mustering helicopters only had one person on board

00:30and early indications suggest the helicopters collided shortly after they took off.

00:35The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has been notified and says they are deploying

00:40a team of transport safety investigators from Canberra and Brisbane to the site.

00:45The Bureau says its investigators will seek to interview any witnesses and collect pilot

00:50and aircraft maintenance records as well as weather information.

00:54The ATSB will release a preliminary report detailing information established from the

00:59investigation's evidence-gathering phase in about two months' time.

01:03WA Police will prepare a report for the coroner and a final report from the ATSB will be released

01:09at the end of its investigation.

01:12We know that the West Kimberley rural community is a very small and tightly knit one and this

01:17news will have a lasting impact.