By Matthew Knott

December 08, 2007 12:04am

A RESPECTED pilot with more than 50 years’ experience was killed when his aircraft crashed into Lake Liddell in NSW’s Hunter Valley during a water-bombing exercise.

The death of crop-dusting pilot and warbird enthusiast Colin Pay, 75, of NSW rural town Scone, has stunned the aviation community.

His body was recovered from the wreckage late yesterday afternoon.

Mr Pay’s yellow Air Tractor 802 was performing a water-skimming exercise on Lake Liddell, near the New England Highway northwest of Singleton, at 9.40am when it touched the surface of the lake, flipped over and sank.

FMI: www.news.com.au

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