Australia craft crash: Canadian commander and Compass Group CEO, 4 family members killed
A distinguished British businessman and 4 members of his family died in a seaplane pile-up in Australia that also claimed a life of a Canadian pilot.
Officials pronounced Monday that Compass Group CEO Richard Cousins, his fiancée and her daughter, and his dual sons died.
Det. Supt. Mark Hutchings of a New South Wales Police identified a family members as:
- Richard Cousins, 58
- Emma Bowden, 48
- Heather Bowden, 11
- Edward Cousins, 23
- William Cousins, 25
Richard Cousins, arch executive officer of Compass Group, is shown during a Bloomberg Television talk in London on Nov. 22, 2016. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg around Getty Images)
Cousins had recently been famous by a Harvard Business Review for his opening as CEO of a multinational catering company. He had designed to step down from his post in March.
Officials pronounced a single-engine craft sank fast after crashing into a Hawkesbury River. All of a bodies have been recovered.
Sydney Seaplanes has dangling a flights as a pile-up is investigated.
Compass operates in about 50 countries, according to a website. Its Canadian domicile are located in Mississauga, Ont.
‘Extremely experienced’ Canadian commander killed
Gareth Morgan, who was piloting a craft from a debate association Sydney Seaplanes, also died in a Sunday afternoon pile-up during a holiday trip.
A relations reliable to CBC News that Morgan was from North Vancouver.
A Facebook memorial page was combined for Morgan early Monday.
In a statement, Sydney Seaplanes handling executive Aaron Shaw called Morgan “an intensely gifted pilot, with over 10,000 hours sum time, of that approximately 9,000 hours was seaplane time.”
Shaw pronounced Morgan was operative his second army with Sydney Seaplanes — a initial from 2011 to 2014, a second starting in May of 2017 — and Morgan privately flew him and his family only before Christmas.
Shaw also pronounced he has “spoken to Gareth’s parents, who live in Canada, and offering a deepest sympathies and we will support them in any approach we can.”
Austin Jean, a orator for Global Affairs Canada, pronounced a sovereign supervision is wakeful of reports that a Canadian citizen had died in Australia.
“Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with those influenced by this occurrence in Australia,” Jean wrote in an email.Â
He pronounced consular officials in Sydney are prepared to offer support to a family as needed.
Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cousins-compass-australia-crash-1.4469166?cmp=rss