The pilot — 78-year-old Adelaide Hills businessman and Angel Flight volunteer Grant Gilbert — was also killed when the plane plummeted into a paddock just minutes after taking off from Mount Gambier Airport, just before 10:30am on Wednesday.
The plane, a 25-year-old Tobago TB10, went down in Suttontown, just a few kilometres south of Mount Gambier airport. The SA Country Fire Service, which was called to the scene of the wreckage, said the plane was “extensively damaged” but there was no actual fire.
Gilbert was taking the teen and her mother to Adelaide as part of his work volunteering for Angel Flights, a charity which provides non-emergency medical flights to people in isolated areas so they can access specialist treatment.
Mount Barker Mayor Ann Ferguson told The Advertiser that Gilbert was an integral part of the local community and “an all-round good local bloke”.
“(Grant) was part of local government and on the hospital board. He was one of those people who would get on with a job without looking for recognition,” she said.
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