Seaplane Crashes Rottnest Island 2025 News. Tourists and pilot killed in australian seaplane crash 01/08/2025 january 8, 2025. Police divers have recovered the bodies of three people from the wreckage of a seaplane that crashed in thomson bay off rottnest island.
The privately owned sea plane, which arrived from nsw days earlier, was carrying one pilot and six passengers when it crashed in thomson bay on rottnest island shortly after. Police believe a privately owned cessna 208 caravan 675 aircraft struck a small limestone outcrop called phillip rock while taking off from rottnest island, off the coast of.