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Pilot in Sea World helicopter crash that killed British newlyweds had cocaine in system

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A pilot who was killed in a Sea World helicopter crash in Australia alongside two British newlyweds and a mother from Sydney had cocaine in his system at the time of the incident, a report has found.

Ron and Diane Hughes, from Liverpool, were killed on 2 January last year when two helicopters crashed mid-air on Queensland’s Gold Coast, where the newlyweds had been visiting their daughter and grandchildren.

Sea World Helicopters chief pilot Ashley Jenkinson and Vanessa Tadros, a 36-year-old mother from Sydney, were also killed in the crash. Her 10-year-old son Nicolas survived

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