FORCED LANDING OF A BOOMERANG
3 MILES NORTH OF RED ISLAND POINT
IN FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND
ON 24 AUGUST 1943
During a non-operational travel flight, Boomerang A46-63 of 84 Squadron RAAF suffered an engine failure and forced landed on the beach three miles north of Red Island Point in tropical far north Queensland at about 1020 hours E.S.T. on Tuesday 24 August 1943. The pilot Flight Sergeant Edmund Arthur Adams (411093) was only slightly injured.
F/SGt. Adams was ferrying Boomerang A46-63 to 1 RSU at Higgins Airfield to replace the airscrew with a new one. When he was over the western coastline of Cape York Peninsula, the engine cut out, and came on again and then cut out completely. F/Sgt. Adams landed wheels up on the beach and at the end of the run, the Boomerang swung into the trees on the edge of the beach. The aircraft was extensively damaged.
Photo:- via Gordon Birkett
Boomerang A46-63 before the accident
F/.Sgt Adams had been involved in an earlier accident in Boomerang A46-24 on 16 May 1943 on Horn Island. Sadly F/Sgt Adams was later killed in action in Italy on 30 January 1945 whilst flying in Kittyhawk IV FT927 on operations. He was buried in a Cemetery in Padua, in Italy.
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