A young couple with a baby on the way have died in a light plane crash in North Queensland. 9News
Family and friends are grieving the loss of bush pilot Rhiley Kuhrt and his wife Maree, who was 27 weeks pregnant with a baby girl.
The couple was on board a Piper Cherokee plane which left a cattle station yesterday afternoon before crashing in the Clarke Ranges, west of Proserpine.Kuhrt is the son of a police officer, it has been confirmed. The wreckage was spotted by a rescue chopper more than 15 hours after the flight was reported missing when the couple failed to arrive at Lakeside Airpark.
Inspector Andrew Godbold from Queensland Police confirmed the crash site had been found and said it could take up to three days to retrieve the bodies.He said it was believed the plane got into difficulties during a storm and that the pair were on their way to visit family."They would have been faced with a lot of showers, a lot of thunder and probably visibility down to nothing.
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