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Old 1st Jun 2020, 23:16
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Possum1
 
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My Mother's recollections - I was aged one(We lived at 115 Donaldson St, Mackay under the approach path for the runway at Mackay):

Her recollections whilst outside hosing her garden were of the glimpses of the aircraft very low inbound, in the fog above. Local reports of the time were that the plane had its wheels on the runway briefly and relatives and passengers were waving to each other as it passed the terminal building(the old one).

The other sad note was that there were several Rockhampton Boys Grammar boarders from Mackay on the plane who had been given this flight as an end of term treat rather than the bumpy grind up the pot-holed track, known as Highway 1, the Bruce Highway!

There is a memorial to this accident at the Far Beach.

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