The Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter was dispatched to Pottsville around 7pm yesterday to search for a small plane that onlookers at Pottsville beach claimed to have seen disappear into the water off Wooyung.
The plane was subsequently located on the ground – at Tyagarah Airport.
The aircraft is a distinctive red and yellow firebombing plane that was practising low-level flying over the ocean at the time of the report.
Several onlookers thought they had seen the aircraft crash into the ocean.
