26 March 1942 - Crash of a Lockheed Hudson at Kilsyth, VIC

CRASH OF A LOCKHEED HUDSON
AT KILSYTH, VIC
ON 26 MARCH 1942

visits since 28 December 2000

RAAF Lockheed Hudson A16-139 crashed at Bayswater North, a suburb of Melbourne at the foothills of Mt. Dandenong in Victoria on 26 March 1942. The area may have been called Kilsyth during WW2.

In December 2000 Kevin Wakeman told me that the aircraft crashed at the corner of Gatwick and Stephenson Rd. in Kilsyth.

Kevin was only 15 yr old at the time. A friend of Kevin, whose parents had a house at the corner of Durham Rd and Mt Dandenong Rd told Kevin that the aircraft flew over their house at tree top level on its landing run. It followed the route of the proposed freeway and sliced the top off a pine tree just after crossing Colchester road.

It came to rest with the wings against two large pine trees at the other end of the paddock. All these trees are still in existence and still show the scars. The Hudson was A16-139 and the events leading up to the crash are described in Wings June 1991 (or 1992).

Kevin has letters from crew member Barney Hancock who Kevin mentioned was not in the best of health at that time.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd like to thank Kevin Wakeman and Rick Hanning for their assistance with this home page.

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