Cadets Solve Fourteen Months’ Old Plane Mystery
(Rec. 9.50) LONDON, Nov. 12 The mystery of a plane that disapoeared fourteen months ago, has been solved by the discovery of the wreckage and of two bodies in mountainous country between Canberra and Burrinjuck. The discovery was made by cadets of the Duntroon military college while on a route march. The remains are those of John Meehan, aged thirty-five of Geelong, and Wallace Stillard, aged twenty-eight, of Barooga. They left Mascot for Essendon on August 26, 1947, in a Percival two-seater monoplane. Meehan was an airman of long experience, who attained the rank of Wing Commander in the R.A.A.F. during the war. The wreck was found a few miles south of the normal radio range track.
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Grey River Argus, 13 November 1948, Page 4
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