A SUSSEX man is today desperately waiting for news of his brother who was injured in a plane crash in the South Pacific.
Several passengers and the pilots died when the Twin-Otter aircraft plunged into the ocean on Saturday night.
Dr Andrew Gray was one of a group of survivors who began swimming from the crash scene.
However, Dr Gray, 43, from Oxfordshire, who was slightly injured, dropped back from the rest of the group and his brother Richard, from Lewes, now fears he may not have survived.
Richard said: "It is very difficult not knowing. We are not very optimistic at all now."
The plane crashed during a flight from the island of Espiritu Santo.
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