28 Aug 2011 The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney) -
A VETERAN Australian helicopter pilot has been killed in an accident on Malekula Island, Vanuatu.
Phil Cotter, 62, a former NSW resident who is understood to have been living in Vanuatu for 26 years, was piloting a Hughes 500D helicopter on Friday when it crashed while on its way to the island’s coast. Mr Cotter died in the crash but his two passengers survived— one walking away from the wreckage and the other sustaining injuries described as ‘‘ not serious’’.
A Civil Aviation Authority Vanuatu probe is under way.