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QANTAS
'PLANE
CRASHES
Occupants
Killed
BRISBANE, Thursday.
The Qantas mail 'plane
which disappeared yesterday
between Winton and Long-
reach was found to-day, it
having crashed 16 miles
south of its destination. The
'plane caught fire and was
badly burnt. The three occu-
pants were incinerated.
CHARRED MASS
The discovery of the fire blackened
'plane was made to-day by Pilot
Owen. He reported that he could not
definitely state that there were bodies
in the 'plane.
Pilot Owen will attempt a landing
about a quarter of a mile from the
burnt 'plane, but it is doubtful
whether he can get down safely.
A land party which left Winton for
the scene of the crash has reported
the finding of three bodies in the
'plane.
The victims are:—
R. M. Chapman (pilot).
H. H. Henrickson (sub-manager
of the Shell Oil Company, Sydney.
W. McKnoe, of Winton.
The remains of the 'plane were
found exactly on her course.
Pilot Owen said he must have
missed it yesterday when he passed
over the spot owing to a thick dust
haze.
The Atlanta was one of the best
known 'planes used in Qantas service.
It was the 'plane flown by Pilot
Brain which found Owen and Moir
when they crashed on the North
Coast of Australia after a flight
from England, and the same 'plane
in which Pilot Brain found the bodies
of Keith Anderson and Robert Hitch-
cock when Anderson's 'plane came
down in Central Australia on his way
to join in the search for the lost
Southern Cross.
Mr. Hendrickson was on his way
to Darwin to superintend his com-
pany's fuelling arrangements for the
pilots arriving in the Centenary air
race.
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