Plane crash survivor: air supply just vanished as we sank in Queensland lake
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Version 0 of 1. A plane crash survivor has told how her air supply vanished in an instant as the aircraft sank in a Queensland lake. Related: Queensland plane crash pilot hailed a hero for saving all five passengers Authorities are stunned that all six people on board managed to get out alive after the single-engine plane crashed into a lake near Lakeside Airfield, south of Proserpine on Sunday. Rachel Baker 25, was the only person injured in the crash. She remains in hospital with a back injury and has told of her desperate battle for life as the plane went under in seconds. “[It happened] very, very, very quickly,” she told the ABC. “The smallest little bit of air – we were all gasping for it, I remember that. And then it just went.” Air safety officials are continuing to investigate the crash, which left the pilot and the other four passengers shaken but unscathed. |