AHSA Monthly Meeting 16 Sep 2020 (Derek Buckmaster: The Wirraway “Newspaper War”)

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Derek Buckmaster gave a presentation on The Wirraway “Newspaper War”.

The AHSA September monthly meeting was held online via Zoom. A recording of the meeting is included below (click the image below to view the video):

1928 de Havilland DH.50J G-AUHI 'Hermes' operated by QANTAS crashed near Golden Grove, South Australia on 4 September 1928. The aircraft crashed in hilly country in bad weather not long into a flight from Adelaide to Longreach. It spun in from 1,800 feet in cloud, and was destroyed by fire. The pilot, C.W.A.Scott, received burns and a broken jaw but the engineer, George Nutson, suffered burns and other injuries from which he died in hospital. Charles Scott was reprimanded by the management of QANTAS for not delaying his flight until better weather prevailed and for making an unauthorised change to the route to Longreach. Scott went on to make a number of notable flights including winning the 1934 London to Melbourne air race with co-pilot Tom Campbell Black. Source: aviation-safety.net website

1943 DAP/Bristol Beaufort A9-204 of 100 Squadron RAAF crashed on 4 September 1943, after being hit by anti-aircraft fire in the vicinity of Gasmata New Britain during a strike on the airfield. Four crew members were killed in the action: FLGOFF Thomas Hessey Allanson 415106 (pilot), FLGOFF Mervyn Neol Keehn 405193 (observer), FLTSGT Denis Hamlin Webb 405458 and FLTSGT Keith Grieve 405850 (WAGS). Source: ADF Serials website