CC. Gerry Geary was my nav at 10 Sqn. Wonderfully dry wit. We flew many hours together. He got into Qantas as nav. The Darwin crash was spectacular. Pilot was Flying officer Wally Wearne and second pilot was Sgt Bill Fisher. I was there a couple of days later.
Story we got was that an outboard throttle linkage broke and the engine went to full power on touch down. Due to carb design you could not select ICO with full power selected so they could not cut the runaway engine. Big ground loop and aircraft broke its back in a cloud of red dust -very spectacular. I have classic photo of it all forlorn and ******ed on its guts.
If your Dad is still around tell him that I had coffee yesterday with Keith O'Connell who was a gunner at No 1 Sqn.
If you have an email number I can send you some fine Lincoln shots.
