FATAL SIDESLIP
AUSTRALIAN AIR LINER WRECKED
FOUR OCCUPANTS KILLED INSTANTLY.
DISASTER IN NORTHERN TERRITORY.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, January 18.
Advice has been received from Katherine, Northern Territory, that a Lockheed airliner, belonging to Guinea Airways and plying between Darwin and Adelaide, crashed into Katherine Rivetjust after taking off for Adelaide with overseas mails today. The four occupants, Messrs John Jukes and Cecil Clarke, pilots, Peter Donegan, engineer and a Northern Territory aerodrome inspector, Alexander McDonald, were killed. The machine, which cost £23,000, was the newest of the Guinea fleet. It had flown from Darwin early this morning, arriving at Katherine 171 miles away an hour later, where a short stay was made.
The machine was taking off when it appeared to sideslip from about 500 feet and crashed into a sloping bank adjoining the river. The occupants were killed instantly. Jukes, who was aged about 30, was flight superintendent of Guinea Airways. All except McDonald were married and resided in Adelaide.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 7
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