In the worst disaster in Australian aviation history the ANA Skymaster Amana with 24 passengers, including two babies, and a crew of five, crashed and burst into flames in thickly wooded country near York at 10.20 p.m. yesterday. It was the first Skymaster crash in Australia. There was only one survivor, 67-year-old engineer Edgar William Forwood, of Glenelg, South Australia. He was found terribly shocked and badly burnt near the scene of the blazing, scattered wreckage. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 940 wordsSole survivor Edgar Forwood was admitted to Royal Perth Hospital at 5.15 a.m. about seven hours after the crash following a nightmare 130-mile dash by Perth Ambulance men. Though talkative and apparently cheery, Forwood could give very little indication of ...
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The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Tue 27 Jun 1950, Page 1
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