Compass Group CEO, 4 family members killed in Australia craft crash

A distinguished British businessman and his family have been identified as victims of a seaplane pile-up in Australia.

Officials pronounced Monday that Compass Group CEO Richard Cousins, his fiancée and her daughter, and his dual sons were killed. Australian commander Gareth Morgan from a debate association Sydney Seaplanes also died in a Sunday afternoon pile-up during a holiday trip.

Officials pronounced a single-engine craft sank fast after crashing into a Hawkesbury River in New South Wales. The bodies have been recovered.

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)

Sydney Seaplanes has dangling a flights as a pile-up is investigated.

Cousins had recently been famous by a Harvard Business Review for his opening as CEO of a multinational catering company. The 58-year-old designed to step down from his post in March.

Compass operates in about 50 countries, according to a website. Its Canadian domicile are located in Mississauga, Ont.

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