Body found in Snowy Mountains plane crash wreckage is pilot David Stephens, police believe
by Eelemarni Close-Brown from on (#6YQNB)
The 74-year-old Bega man was flying from Wangaratta in Victoria to Moruya in NSW when his plane vanished on Tuesday afternoon
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The body of a man has been located in wreckage in the Snowy Mountains on Friday, after a multi-day police search for a plane that went missing earlier this week.
While police are yet to formally identify the body, they said in a statement that they believe it is that of the pilot, 74-year-old Bega man David Stephens, who has been missing since Tuesday afternoon and was last seen at Wangaratta in Victoria when his plane was inspected before takeoff.
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