Anyone from the Yarra Valley area......

[Guest Mad Dave]

G'day all,

 

I live in Mt. Evelyn and on Saturday morning as I was doing some work around the yard I saw a quite large, old looking twin engine, tail dragger, silver in colour go overhead a few times, and then head off toward Moorabbin (possibly). Any one with any ideas on what it was? I couldn't make out the rego.

 

Cheers,

 

Dave

 

 

[Guest brentc]

Could it have been a DC3 from Essendon? They are regular sites across the sky of Melbourne. If not, perhaps a Beech 18 which is much smaller.

 

 

[Guest Mad Dave]

Yeah, I was thinking possibly DC3, but I never got the best view. I also guess it could have been heading for Essendon.

 

 

[Guest Ken deVos]

DC2 Kyeema crash

 

Possibly to do with the 70th anniversary of the Mt Dandenong DC2 Kyeema crash on October 25, 1938 which you can read more here...

 

Tragic crash shook a nation into action | theage.com.au

 

 

[Guest Mad Dave]

That could quite possibly be related, as I think the time would have been about right!

 

 

[Guest brentc]

Trying to work out where Essendon airport is over cloud on a flight from Adelaide without any kind of navigational aid would be rather difficult! I'm not surprised they didn't make it. You could almost say that they were close to Essendon after such a long distance.

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

it was this accident that motivated the govt into commissioning without delay the radio range beacons and gave birth to the air traffic control system plus a major shake up of the civil aviation administration. It was the loss of several high ranking govt officials that really brought the actions into play. Amongst several well known 'civies' on this flight was Thomas Hardy.

 

Macarther Job has an excellent researched story of this in his book Air Crash vol1

 

Ozzie