Not much fun in the old days flogging down to Tassie in ice filled clouds and no de-icing equipment on the wings.
My father was a passenger on such a flight. While over Bass Straight the aircraft was climbing all the time but then started a descent. The word from up front was that they couldn't get over the storm so they had to go under it. The flight landed at Cambridge (then the Hobart airport) some hours later than scheduled.
As they were taxiing in, another DC3 was warming its engines prior to departing for Melbourne. This aircraft was a freighter. It was taxiing out as my father left the airfield for home. On takeoff that particular aircraft had one of the elevator control wire blocks let go and the crew could not control the aircraft. It crashed into Pittwater with the loss of both crew. For a long time there were remnants of the crashed aircraft on the banks of Pittwater.