‘Trying to text and call’: Australian girl, 10, was at sleepover when family died in US light plane crash

Queenslanders Christian and Misty Kath and their eldest daughter Lily killed when rented Piper Cherokee crashed off coast of Florida on the weekend

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An Australian girl was at a friend's house in Florida when a light plane crashed into the Gulf of Mexico on the weekend, killing her parents and older sister.

Queensland man Christian Kath, 42, was piloting the rented Piper Cherokee when it crashed on Saturday night with his wife, Misty, 43, and their eldest daughter, Lily, 12, on board.