A 73-year-old pilot and a male passenger died after the wreckage caught fire on impact, with emergency services now working to contain the bushfire
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Two men have been killed in a light plane crash near the Gold Coast, sparking a bushfire.
Emergency crews rushed to Heck Field, a private airstrip north of the Gold Coast, after the plane went down in nearby bushland about 6am on Tuesday.