NSW: Family bedside of injured pilot after fatal crash

AAP General News (Australia)
12-26-2008
NSW: Family bedside of injured pilot after fatal crash

A New South Wales family rocked by a fatal Christmas eve light plane crash has come
to Sydney to be with the injured pilot who remains in hospital.

A number of media reports say the man who died was 32-year-old MATTHEW GREEN when the
single-engine Cessna crashed in rugged bushland in the New South Wales Upper Hunter Valley
on Wednesday.

The pilot .. 38-year-old SCOTT KENNEDY-GREEN was taken to Westmead Hospital after being
winched from the accident scene yesterday morning.

A hospital spokeswoman says the successful Sydney-based real estate auctioneer has
minor fractures .. cuts and scratches .. and is in a stable condition according to a hospital
spokeswoman.

Mr KENNEDY-GREEN'S brother-in-law .. Mr GREEN .. was the only other person in the plane
when it crashed en route from Mudgee to Glen Innes.

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