Wikiplacemarks.com  
 



Find us on Google+

MacRobertson Miller Airlines Douglas DC-3 crashes

View on map:31.921600°S 115.971000°E

MacRobertson Miller Airlines Douglas DC-3 crashes


MacRobertson Miller Airlines Douglas DC-3 crashes

On 2 July 1949 a Douglas DC-3 aircraft departed from Perth, Western Australia for a night flight of 441 nautical miles (817 km) to Carnarvon. The aircraft climbed to a height of about 500 feet (152 m) and then spiralled almost vertically to the ground, killing all 18 people on board. It crashed about a mile north of Perth airport and burned for over an hour. It was the worst civil aviation accident in Western Australia and the third-worst in Australia.[2][3][4]

References

All text is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Average user rating: Not rated

Click on a star to rate
 

Do you have a form that you would like to turn into an application?

Please share your ideas with us.

Contact us...