Melbourne plane crash: One dead after light plane comes down in street near Moorabbin Airport
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One person has been killed in a small plane crash in a residential street near Moorabbin Airport, in Melbourne's south-east.
Police said the plane crashed into Scarlet Street, Mordialloc, just after 5:00pm.
It took out power lines and caught fire.
The sole male occupant of the plane was found deceased inside the aircraft. They have yet to be formally identified, police said.
No one else was injured.
The cause of the crash, and the type of plane involved, is not yet known.
Grant, who lives nearby, told ABC Radio Melbourne that at first he thought it was a car accident.
The aircraft is on the street, its badly burnt in the fuselage behind the engine and the cockpit," he said.
"I heard the thump and didn't pay much attention, thinking it was just a car accident down the road somewhere and then the whole neighbourhood went nuts with non-stop fire brigades, ambulances, police.
"You can't move out on Scarlett St for emergency vehicles at the moment.
"A neighbour was walking his child down there and scooted out of the way real quick and it was just a ball of flame all the centre of it."
Grant said Scarlett St was a small suburban street about 400 metres from Moorabbin Airport.
Despite its size, Moorabbin is one of the country's busiest airports with flying schools, charter flights, freight, recreational flights and air work such as surveying conducted from the site.
It is about 22 kilometres from the CBD.
The crash will be investigated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
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