Sydney, Sept. 19 -- An emergency search and rescue operation is to resume on Friday morning to locate the pilot of a light aircraft that crashed southwest of Sydney on Thursday afternoon.
The multi-agency search operation commenced at around 4:30 p.m. local time on Thursday when emergency services were called to Budawang National Park, about 200 km southwest of Sydney, following reports that an aircraft emergency location transmitter had activated.
Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement on Friday that a small recreational aircraft had departed Bankstown in Sydney's southwest suburbs earlier on Thursday with a single occupant and was in the process of returning to the airport when it crashed.
The crash site was l...