gaunty & onetrack
Just to politely correct your collective memories, the Cessna Citation incident was in the early 1980's. The aircraft was westbound for Kalgoorlie from the Eastern states and belonged to B.H.P. North not B.H.P. I went out for a sticky beak about 2 hours later. Considering the low cloud base at the time of the incident he was very lucky to find a fire break right in front of him, which fortuitously was a adjacent to a road.
There was unfortunately
a more serious accident in 1988 again involving most of the senior members of a mining company.
I fell very saddened by the current uncertainty as I know several of those missing.