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Australian passengers who were on the "traumatic" Singapore Airlines flight that was hit by severe turbulence, causing it to suddenly drop mid-air, have begun returning to Australia.

The first passengers arrived at Sydney Airport this afternoon and were greeted by tearful family members who said they were grateful to have their loved ones home.

Passenger Beverly Mayers told 9News she experienced "sheer terror" when the plane suddenly dropped by 6000 feet in five minutes.

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"Sheer terror and such shock," Mayers said.

"The whole plane was shuttering, and you think it's going to land in the water.

"Great pieces (of the plane) were cracking off and dropping on the floor, people were getting hit in the head, one lady was lying on the floor and when they tried to get her up she was screaming, it was awful."

"I think we all thought the plane was going to fall apart..break in half.

"It wasn't until I got off the plane when I couldn't stop crying."

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Passenger Ramiza Bukharn also returned to Sydney with her husband Ali.

The pair saying they were left "traumatised."

"It was hard to process what was happening, one minute we were getting ready for breakfast the next minute the plane just dropped," Ramiza said.

"At the moment we didn't know it was turbulence, I had no idea what was happening.

"Every slight bit of turbulence (after that) it was a sinking feeling…it has left us traumatised."

Teandra Tukhunen had been sleeping when the seatbelt sign turned on.

"When they put the seat belt sign, pretty much immediately straight after I was flung to the roof before I had time to put my seat belt on, it was so quick (there was) no warning whatsoever," she told 9News earlier via video.

The Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 took off from London Heathrow on Monday night (early yesterday AEDT) but was diverted to Bangkok where it landed yesterday afternoon.

A passenger from the UK, Geoffrey Kitchen, died during the incident from a suspected heart attack.

A total of 211 people were on the flight, including 56 Australians. 

Passengers are expected to keep arriving in Australia over the next 24 hours. 

There are still eight Australians being treated in Bangkok Hospitals.

Their conditions are unknown.

A judge described the case as “quite literally a cover up”.

Police say no injuries have been reported at the scene.

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A man accused of murdering his partner's daughter feared he would go back to prison if the girl did not return to Queensland, shortly before she went missing, a jury has heard.

He had earlier been found digging for "treasure" by a neighbour.

"It seemed strange," the neighbour told a court today.

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Justin Laurens Stein, 33, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of nine-year-old Charlise Mutten in January 2022.

The girl was reported missing from the Mount Wilson property in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney where she was staying with Stein and her mother Kallista Mutten.

The neighbour who came across Stein digging in the bush near their properties after his german shepherd took an interest said it looked like he was hiding, lying face down in a culvert, before he asked Stein what he was doing.

"His answer to me was he was digging for treasure," the neighbour said, telling the court he agreed not to tell anyone.

"I thought it was weird but I didn't think it was dangerous."

Eventually, the neighbour did tell police when they showed up looking for Charlise the next month.

The neighbour had previously attended a dinner with his wife and mother-in-law, where Stein, his mother, Charlise and her mother were also present.

He recalled conversation about custody of the girl, who had been living on the Gold Coast before visiting her mother.

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"(Stein) said that if anything happened and the child didn't go back to Queensland that he would end up in prison again," the neighbour said.

The jury has heard Stein had been jailed for drug-related offences and was being treated for addiction as well as schizophrenia.

He met Charlise's mother while she was in prison for dangerous driving occasioning death.

Charlise's body was found in a sand-filled barrel on the banks of the Colo River four days after she was reported missing.

Stein claims he was in a shed on the property when he heard a gunshot, emerging to see the nine-year-old's mother Kallista Mutten shoot her daughter a second time.

The pair had allegedly stolen guns from a property months earlier.

Senior Constable Graeme Gray allegedly found those guns buried off a fire trail near the property in February, after Charlise had been found dead.

They were under a mound rising about 10 centimetres above the rest of the ground, covered in sticks, with a sliver of blue tarpaulin sticking out.

"This did not look like it belonged," Gray told the court.

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Wrapped in that blue tarpaulin, buried only centimetres under the ground, were the two guns and ammunition.

There was also a small piece of silver.

"I describe it as in the shape of a 'C'," Gray told the NSW Supreme Court on Wednesday.

A rifle Gray found was brought into the Parramatta courtroom as it became evidence in Stein's trial.

Justice Helen Wilson reassured the jury the gun was unloaded and could not do any damage before jurors passed it between themselves.

Pictures of the buried guns were previously shown to Stein's mother at Katoomba Police Station, the jury heard on Tuesday.

Stein, speaking to his mother on the phone from custody, told her he needed her to retrieve something he had dumped in the bush.

"I've got a feeling that they might already have them," Annemie Stein told her son.

Neither identified specifically what they were talking about in the recorded call.

The trial resumes on Thursday.

Greg Lynn's 4WD was painted a different colour when police attended his home months after he allegedly murdered Russell Hill and Carol Clay, a jury has been told.

Lynn, who was a Jetstar captain at the time, is accused of killing the couple on March 20, 2020, in Victoria's Wonnangatta Valley and then dumping their remains in bushland.

The 57-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and is on trial at the Supreme Court in Melbourne.

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Detective Leading Senior Constable Abbey Justin on Wednesday said cell tower records showed Hill's phone was near the Great Alpine Road at 10am on March 21, the day after the alleged murders.

Police accessed CCTV footage from the road and found only one vehicle had come from the Wonnangatta Valley in that period, she told the jury.

Sen Const Justin said the vehicle was a grey-blue Nissan Patrol registered to Lynn.

She first attended Lynn's Caroline Springs home on July 14, 2020, and saw his vehicle parked on a side street but it was painted a light-brown colour, the jury was told.

She admitted it might have been a "sand bank" colour when quizzed by Lynn's barrister Dermot Dann KC.

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Lynn had told police he painted his car that colour after the Wonnangatta trip, Dann said.

Sen Const Justin also gave evidence about Lynn's bank records, which showed he purchased fuel in Mansfield, west of Wonnangatta, on March 21.

It's alleged Hill and Clay died on March 20 after an argument between Lynn and Hill at Bucks Camp in the Wonnangatta Valley.

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Hill had threatened to send his drone footage of Lynn deer hunting near the camp to police, Dann told the jury.

He claimed a scuffle broke out after Hill took a gun from Lynn's vehicle and Clay was accidentally shot by Hill.

The barrister said Hill came at Lynn with a knife and was accidentally stabbed in the chest as Lynn defended himself.

However, prosecutors allege Lynn intentionally killed Hill and Clay.

Lynn burned Clay and Hill's campsite, put their bodies in his trailer and dumped them on the remote Union Spur Track, near Dargo.

The trial continues.

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A child in Victoria has been confirmed as having the first case of bird flu in Australia.

The child acquired the avian influenza A (H5N1) infection while in India, and was unwell in March this year, according to state health officials.

The case was announced today, hours after bird flu was detected on a farm in Victoria.

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"Contact tracing has not identified any further cases of avian influenza connected to this case," Victoria Health said in a statement today.

The child reportedly experienced a severe infection but is no longer unwell. 

"The avian influenza virus was detected through further testing of positive influenza samples that takes place to detect novel or concerning flu virus strains, as part of Victoria's enhanced surveillance system," officials said. 

Health officials said most people were not at risk from the virus, unless they had contact with infected birds or animals, or their secretions, while in affected areas of the world.

"Rarely, avian influenza infection in humans can pass to another person with prolonged contact.

"However, there is no evidence that the H5N1 strains of avian influenza circulating globally can be spread easily from human to human."

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Victoria Health said the child was the first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Australia, and the first detected case of the H5N1 strain in the country.

Bird flu symptoms include fever, cough, headache, aching muscles and respiratory symptoms.

Other early symptoms may include conjunctivitis and gastrointestinal symptoms.

The infection may progress quickly to severe respiratory illness and neurological changes.

Earlier today, a different strain of bird flu was detected on a Victorian egg farm after a number of poultry deaths.

While the human case detected today is in the H5N1 strain, the strain on the farm was found to be a different H7N7 variety.

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Agriculture Victoria said in a release that early tests had confirmed the presence of the virus on the farm near Meredith, west of Melbourne.

Samples were sent to the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness at Geelong for further tests.

Testing has since confirmed that the chicken-farm outbreak is from the H7 strain.

Senator Murray Watt said the tests ruled out the H5 strain as the cause of the poultry outbreak, which was otherwise causing concern around the world.

Avian influenza is found in birds around the world.

Virus strains are described as low pathogenicity (LPAI) or high pathogenicity (HPAI).

In 2020, three egg farms in Victoria were caught in an HPAI bird flu outbreak, but they were declared disease free in February 2021.

While cases among humans in direct contact with animals infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses are possible, the current risk to the public remains low, Agriculture Victoria said.

All poultry and bird owners across Victoria are reminded to follow best biosecurity practices such keeping poultry sheds, yards, aviaries and equipment clean, and restricting contact between your poultry and wild birds.

Bird owners should also ensure their footwear is clean, always wash hands before and after handling birds or eggs and quarantine new birds before integrating with existing ones.

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People are advised to not be concerned about eggs and poultry products from the supermarkets.

Agriculture Victoria said they do not pose a risk and are safe to eat.

Any suspicion of an emergency animal disease (EAD) should be immediately reported to the 24-hour EAD Hotline on 1800 675 888 or to your local vet.

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