THE pilot of a light aircraft which crashed into water killing himself and his young family had probably struggled with poor weather before making the fatal descent, investigators have found.
Stuart Sceney, 45, his wife Karmi Dunn, 53, and their daughters Mekdes, 12, and Kal, 15, were killed on April 1 when their Cessna 210H crashed off the coast of Cape Ford, south-west of Darwin.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau on Thursday released its final report into the crash, including that flight plans for the trip, from the Northern Territory's Bullo River Station to a private airstrip near Darwin, had been delayed by poor weather including thunderstorms.
"During the flight ... the pilot continued to track along the planned coastal route towards a thunderstorm, probably encountering conditions such as low cloud, reduced visibility and turbulence, and as a result of one or more of those factors the aircraft descended and collided with water," the report found.
Parts of the aircraft and bodies were found on a nearby beach the day after the crash.
The Bureau warned that while visual tracking along a coastline can be beneficial in bad weather, there is an increased risk of disorientation and a subsequent lack of surface definition when over water.
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