ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 341523
| Date: | Friday 20 February 1942 |
| Time: | 08:30 |
| Type: | de Havilland DH.86 Express |
| Owner/operator: | Qantas |
| Registration: | VH-USE |
| MSN: | 2309 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 13 km ENE of Brisbane-Archerfield Airport, QLD -
 Australia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Brisbane-Archerfield Airport, QLD (ACF/YBAF) |
| Mount Isa Airport, QLD (ISA/YBMA) |
A de Havilland DH.86 Express passenger plane crashed on the slope of Mount Petrie, killing all nine aboard. The flight had taken off from Brisbane-Archerfield Airport, QLD on a flight to Mount Isa.
Sources:
De Havilland full production list
NINE LOSE LIVES IN PLANE CRASH. (1942, February 26). The Central Queensland Herald
Location
Images:
photo (c) John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 1940; (publicdomain)
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