Divers to try to retrieve body from plane

Police divers will this weekend attempt to recover a body believed to be trapped in the fuselage of a plane that crashed into Bass Strait killing four people.

Three bodies have been recovered but the fourth is still missing and poor weather has prevented police divers from reaching the sea floor to search the wreckage of the small plane that crashed off the coast near Geelong on January 29.

A boat carrying diving equipment will travel to the crash site on Saturday and divers are expected to make their way down to the wreckage on Sunday.