AHSA Monthly Meeting 17 February 2021 (Rob Lynch and John Deckert: The Aviation Heritage of Nhill)

17/02/202106/12/2021

Rob Lynch (President of the Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre) and John Deckert gave a presentation covering the rich aviation history of Nhill, including its involvement as an RAAF training base during the Second World War. Rob and John also described the Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre and and the ongoing restoration of Avro Anson W2364.

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1968 A MacRobertson Miller Airlines Vickers Viscount aircraft VH-RMQ departed from Perth, Western Australia on 31 December 1968, for a flight of 724 nautical miles (1,341 km) to Port Hedland. MMA flight 1750 crashed 28 nautical miles (52 km) short of its destination with the loss of all twenty-six people on board. More than half of the right wing, from outboard of the inner engine to the wingtip, including the outer engine and its propeller, broke away from the rest of the aircraft in flight and struck the ground a significant distance from the main wreckage. Investigation by the Australian Department of Civil Aviation and British Aircraft Corporation concluded that a bushing in an engine to main-spar attachment fitting had been hammered into place during maintenance, leading to extensive fatigue cracking in the right wing spar. This accident remains the third worst in Australia's civil aviation history. Source: Flight Safety Australia