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Old 8th Apr 2021, 07:31
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I knew the owner / pilot of this aircraft, Ted Smith. We did our PPL navigation together, a 7 day east coast nav trip with 3 students and the instructor.

After buying a C182, then a Bonanza, and finally the Baron, he and his wife disappeared in QLD as per the report.

26 years later, my mother contacted me to tell me the wreckage had been located in the side of a mountain, by a helicopter pilot, during a very dry period when most vegetation on the mountain had died off. No remains were found in the wreckage. It was reported in The Rockhampton papers I believe, I saw a faxed copy.

CASA or DCA never bother to update their reports it seems.

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