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BY JAPANESE FIGHTERS QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS FLYING-BOAT. TEN PASSENGERS & THREE OF CREW KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Thirteen persons were killed when a Qantas Empire Airways flying-boat was attacked by enemy fighters and crashed into the sea, during its flight from Darwin to Koepang on Friday. Revealing this, the Minister for Air, Mr A. S. Drakeford, said the aircraft carried thirteen passengers and a crew of five, of whom three passengers and two members of the crew have been saved. The aircraft was forced down by fighters at the mouth of the Noelmina River, near Koepang, at about the same time as Japanese bombing raids were made on the town. When the flying-boat crashed into the sea its back was broken and it sank shortly afterwards. One of the survivors, Captain A. A. Koch, commander of the flying-boat, received a broken right leg and machine-gun wounds in his left arm and left leg. Medical aid has been sent to the injured, who are known to be on the mainland, in the vicinity of Koepang. The aircraft carried a ton of mails and it is considered unlikely that they would be recovered. i
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1942, Page 4
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