RodH and Banjo
Great to hear from you legends who actually got to fly Viscounts.
Thank you for your references to the appropriate links. When at the ATSB office in Canberra thy actually produced the DCA folder containing the findings and the photos taken during the investigation of VH-TVC which broke up over Botany Bay in 1961. When one goes for a search on the internet you get directed to other links (Copies of Air Safety Digests produced by DCA and links as you have mentioned). I have studied the loss and incidents involving Viscounts operated in Australia extensively. The frustration with the ATSB site is that although there are summaries of incidents in the old copies of the wonderful Bureau of Air Safety/DCA digests access to the actual accident/incident reports are scant. Getting back to the incident related to in this discussion could it be that as the aircraft and occupants survived that the DCA placed less resources to it and regarded it as an encounter clear air turbulence. Could it be tht Reg Ansett may have done all he could to avoid any media involvement/coverage of the incident and that it was dealt with discreetly between Ansett and the DCA.
Another source of information may be to contact The TAA Museum team in Melbourne as there are both pilots and LAME's who were involved in operating and maintaining the type and may be able to shed some light on the incident.