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Rescue plane sinks after ditching
November 19, 2009 - 12:26PM
Six people including a sick woman have been rescued after a medical evacuation plane was forced to ditch in the sea off Norfolk Island.
The CareFlight plane was taking a critically ill patient from Samoa to Melbourne and was attempting to make a refuelling stop at Norfolk Island, the Seven Network reports.
Bad weather thwarted three attempts at landing, so the pilot peeled away from the island and put the plane down in the sea about two nautical miles offshore.
The crew and the patient were all able to get safely off the plane before it sank three minutes later.
All six people were forced to tread water, only three of them wearing lifejackets, for about 90 minutes before they were rescued by boat.
All were in shock and suffering from hypothermia but no one suffered major injuries.
AAP