9news.com.au | Killed pilot Rod Hay 'mentor, friend' Herald Sun A chief flight instructor killed in a light plane crash in the NSW Blue Mountains has been remembered as a mentor and friend. Rod Hay, 80, was the chief pilot at Katoomba Airfield, where he took off from on Saturday. The experienced pilot carried out a ... Missing Blue Mountains plane found with dead pilot inside Tributes flow for 'good bush pilot' killed in Blue Mountains light plane crash Pilot Rodney Hay, who died in plane crash, had survived nine emergency landings |