Two Dead After Light Planes Collide Midair

**FILE** A Monday, July 23, 2018 file photo of Caboolture Hospital in Caboolture, 51 km North of Brisbane. It has been three years since school teacher Olivia Keating went to Caboolture Hospital for a caesarean and emerged with part of her bowel sewn into the wall of her abdomen, Tuesday, September 21, 2021. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Two people have died, and a pilot has had a miraculous survival after two light planes collided midair over a regional Queensland airfield.

The aircraft collided “quite low to the ground” at the Caboolture aerodrome, north of Brisbane, police said.

The incident unfolded at about 10.30 a.m. on Friday as one aircraft was attempting a takeoff.

“At the moment, there are two deceased in the plane that took off from the eastern end,” Queensland Police Superintendent Paul Ready said.