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Photographer Richard Green lost in EC135 crash

Renowned Australian landscape and nature photographer Richard Green, his wife Carolyn and friend John Davis were killed when Green’s Airbus Helicopters EC135 T1, VHGKK, crashed in mountainous terrain while the trio were returning to Sydney, having departed from Breeza Station, south-west of Tamworth on November 7.

When the EC135 failed to arrive at the Green’s Mona Vale residence on Sydney’s northern beaches by the morning of November 9, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) was alerted and commenced a search and rescue operation that stretched from the Hunter Valley to northern Sydney. AMSA deployed one of its Dornier 328 SAR aircraft along with ten helicopters to carry out the search, which located the wreckage of VHGKK in dense vegetation at around 7pm that evening in the Watagans National Park, south of Cessnock.