WRONG LANDING STRIP
AUSTRALIAN PASSENGER PLANE
DESERTED MILITARY BASE Rec. 10 p.m. • SYDNEY, Nov. 18 Passengers who were relaxing after a Dakota airliner of the Governmentowned Trans-Australia Airlines landed on its flight from Adelaide to Darwm were startled when the plane turned into the wind and took off again. They were even more surprised. when a hostess came through and said: “We seem to have landed on the wrong strip.” Instead of landing at Katherine, the plane had touched down on a deserted military airstrip at Tindall, seven miles away. It may have achieved the honour to have been the first plane to land at Tindall, for this airstrip was completed just as the war ended, and as far as is known it was never used by service aircraft. The authorities and passengers take a serious view of the incident, which has been reported to the Civil Aviation Department. “ Somebody is going to get killed if this is allowed to continue,” said Captain N. S. Buckley, president of the Australian Airlines Pilots’ Assoc’ation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26622, 19 November 1947, Page 5
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173WRONG LANDING STRIP Otago Daily Times, Issue 26622, 19 November 1947, Page 5
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