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PERTH - A New Zealand pilot whose plane crashed in a remote part of the West Australian goldfields has been named by police.
Officers found the body of a pilot believed to be New Zealander Christopher John Douglas, 25, amid the wreckage of a Cessna, 400km north-northeast of Kalgoorlie, after it crashed on a parcel run.
A search began for the lone pilot after he failed to arrive in Kalgoorlie after leaving Warburton on a freight run on October 18.
His parents are believed to have arrived in Western Australia to identify his body.
- AAP
