Dawn revealed a grim, rain-soaked scene at the DC3 wreck in Camp 22, South Guildford, yesterday. Between a hut and out-hourse surrounded by unscathed trees, was the black, pulped cockpit of the holocaust which had once been the "Fitzroy's" ...
Article : 605 wordsMr. Harry Jones, of Comp 22, who risked flames to save mailbags from the DC3 wreck, was a few months ago working on the runway from which the ill-fated plane took off on its fast flight. ...
Article : 160 wordsYesterday's air disaster at Guildford is the more tragic because it contrasts so strongly with hundreds of thousands of miles and year after year of safe travel in Western Australia. ...
Article : 201 words"I Have been assured that death would have been instantaneous in all ...
Article : 107 wordsAircraft Captain W. G. Norman (27), single of Nedlands had been flying MMA aircraft ...
Article : 539 wordsGEORGE ROBERT FORBES saw the plane strike the ground and burst into flames. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 70 wordsWithin a few hours of the crash 24 people mode bookings with MMA for fliqhts to NW towns. ...
Article : 106 wordsWithin 5 minutes of hearing of the crash Superintendent of Air Navigation and Safety E. H. Fry, who is acting regional director Dept. of Civil Aviation, was reporting the tragedy to the Chief Inspector of Air Accidents' ...
Article : 133 words"I am shocked to learn of the air tragedy." PM Ch ley said this in a telegram to Premier Ross ...
Article : 77 wordsFighting the blaze with foam, crash tender driver A. J, Firth did a grand job. For a time he was fighting ...
Article : 55 words"I heard the plane coming down and I thought it was going to strike our hut. I rushed to my children. When I got outside I heard the petrol explode into roaring flame," said Mrs. Doris ...
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Advertising : 14 words'I saw the last few seconds bf the plane's fall," said George Robert Forbes. ...
Article : 144 wordsFrom 3 a.m. until late yesterday morning, MMA general manager, E. C. Gare and Operations ...
Article : 76 wordsBooked to leave for Broome on the ill-fated DC3, Henry George Semeny of Mt. Lawley decided not to take the ...
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Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954), Sun 3 Jul 1949, Page 2
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