10 Worst Aircraft Crashes in Australia

DATE	LOCATION	SERVICE	AIRCRAFT	SERIAL NO.
14 Jun 43	Bakers Creek near Mackay	USAAF	B-17 Flying Fortress	#40-2072, "Miss Every Morning Fix'n", 40 killed
19 Dec 43	30 miles north of Rockhampton near Rossmoya Rd, Canal Creek area	USAAF	C-47 Dakota	VH-CHR, #43-30742?, 31 killed
10 Jun 60	into the sea near Mackay	Trans-Australia Airlines	F-27 Fokker Friendship	VH-TFB, "Abel Tasman", 29 killed
26 Jun 50	York	Australian National Airways Pty Ltd	Douglas DC-4	VH-ANA (c/n 42910), "Amana", crashed after takeoff from Guildford. 28 killed in crash, 1 other died 2 days later. Total 29 killed.
7 Aug 43	Into Cleveland Bay, Townsville	USAAF	C-47 Dakota	#41-7733, 27 killed
31 Dec 68	Port Hedland	MacRobertson-Miller Airlines	Vickers Viscount 720	VH-RMQ. Crashed after an in-flight separation of the starboard wing. 26 killed.
10 Mar 46	Frederick Henry Bay about 275 metres from beach and 1.6 km from the western end of Seven-Mile Beach near Cambridge, Tasmania	Australian National Airways Pty Ltd	Douglas DC-3 (C-47-DL)	VH-AET (c/n 6013), crashed 10 minutes after takeoff from Hobart at 8.55 pm. Crash was caused by the pilot engaging the autopilot while the gyroscope was still caged. 25 killed
22 Sep 66	On Nadjayamba Station approx.12 miles west of Winton township and about 13.5 miles short of the airfield	Ansett/ANA	Vickers 832 Viscount	VH-RMI, 24 killed. Suffered a fire in the No.2 cabin air blower. which spread to a fuel tank in the wing where the upper boom of the main spar was heated until it failed under steady flight loads. The port wing failed in flight.
27 Mar 45	Cooktown - Finschhafen	USAAF	C-47A-90-DL Dakota	#43-16011, c/n 20477, 24 killed
27 Mar 43	near Archerfield, Brisbane	RAAF	C-47 Dakota	VH-CTB, A65-2 (A30-16), 23 killed

10 Mar 49	Bilinga, QLD	Queensland Airlines	Lockheed Lodestar	VH-BAG, 21 killed
18 Dec 42	Mt Straloch, Hinchinbrook Island	USAAF	B-24 Liberator	#41-23825 "Texas Terror", 20 killed
16 Nov 43	On Rewan Station south of Springsure	USAAF	C-47A Dakota	VH-CGK, 19 killed
7 Sep 44	near Mossman, QLD	Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force	C-47 Dakota	DT-941 (VH-RDK), 19 killed

The worst aviation disaster involving Australians occurred in New Guinea during WWII when a B-24 Liberator crashed killing the crew of eleven men and sixty soldiers of the 2/33rd Battalion and two drivers from the 158th General Transport Company. An additional 90 men suffered horrendous burns in this tragic incident.

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