23 KILLED
INCLUDING THREE WOMEN IN LOSS OF AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT PLANE. \ ' CRASH IN HEAVY TIMBER NEAR BRISBANE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, March 29. Twenty-three service personnel were killed when a Eoyal Australian Air Force transport plane crashed near Brisbane early yesterday morning. The victims were three women service members, two American Army officers, one Australian Army officer, and 17 members of the R.A.A.F. There were no survivors. The plane, which was flying from Brisbane to Sydney, crashed into heavy timber shortly after taking off in darkness and was totally destroyed. An inquiry will be held to, ascertain the cause of the crash [
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430330.2.35
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1943, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
10223 KILLED Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1943, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in