The Kyeema airline crash

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Date: 25 Oct 1938 [unknown]
Location: Mount Dandenong, Victoria, Australia.

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1 The Kyeema Airline Crash which occurred on the 25th of October 1938
- 1.1 CREW
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The Kyeema Airline Crash which occurred on the 25th of October 1938

Eighteen persons, comprising 14 passengers and a crew of four, were killed instantly when the Australian National Airways Douglas air liner Kyeema, flying fully loaded from Adelaide, crashed in dense cloud into the crest of The Basin, Mount Dandenong in Victoria, Australia, at 1.43 p.m. on Tuesday the 25th of October 1938.

At the time it was Australia's worst aviation disaster, and below we see a list of those who were killed:

CREW

Captain A. C. D. Webb aged 32, pilot, married, of Essendon, Victoria.

Junior Captain Alan J. Steen aged 25, pilot, married, of Essendon North, Victoria.

Elva Jones aged 27, air hostess, single, of Toorak, Victoria.

Philip D. Pring aged 20, cadet pilot attached to Australian National Airways Aeronautics School, of Sydney, New South Wales.

PASSENGERS

Charles Allan Seymour Hawker, M.H.R. aged 44, single, of Hallett, South Australia.

Leonard Sydney Abrahams, K.C. aged 51, married, barrister, of Sydney, New South Wales.

Sidney Hill Smith aged 41, married, managing director of S. Smith and Son, of Yalumba, South Australia.

Thomas Mayfield Hardy aged 48, married, of Thomas Hardy and Sons.

Louis Hugo Gramp aged 43, married, of Gramp & Son, Rowland's Flat, South Australia.

Vaughan Pate aged 42, refrigerator cabinet manufacturer, married, of Unley, South Australia.

William Ling aged 72, of Adelaide, South Australia.

Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Schroder aged 69, widow, of Adelaide, South Australia.

Hans L. Gloe aged 27, of Perth, Western Australia and his wife:

Mrs. Gloe aged 23.

Alfred Cecil Gain aged 42, married, barrister, of Sydney, New South Wales.

Gordon H. Goddard aged 30, single, accountant, of North Sydney, New South Wales.

Lancelot William Shirley aged 27, single, solicitor, of Manly, New South Wales.

James Ian Massie aged 25, single, solicitor, of Sydney, New South Wales.

Sources

1938 Kyeema crash from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia first accessed online on the 18th of June, 2023 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Kyeema_crash

EIGHTEEN KILLED IN AIR DISASTER. PLANE STRIKES MOUNTAIN. from The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) of Wednesday 26 October 1938, Page 15. first accessed on TROVE on the 18th of June, 2023 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17531476?

8 KILLED IN WORST AIR SMASH from the Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) of Thursday 27 October 1938, Page 42. first accessed on TROVE on the 18th of June, 2023 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/92434437

Clue In Final Log Entry from the Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) of Thursday 27 October 1938, Page 42. first accessed on TROVE on the 18th of June, 2023 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/92434436?

DISTANCE ERROR OF FORTY MILES EVIDENCE AT KYEEMA CRASH INQUIRY from The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) of Tuesday 1 November 1938, Page 2. first accessed on TROVE on the 18th of June, 2023 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12058206

The Kyeema airline crash

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The Kyeema Airline Crash which occurred on the 25th of October 1938

CREW

PASSENGERS

Sources

Further Reading