Looking at that pic of Garry's C180 with a leg ripped off immediately brings to mind another one that appeared in the WEST AUSTRALIAN newspaper in Perth in 1965 or 66.
Similarly, it showed an RFDS C180 that had a come to grief on a runway at Jandakot. At the time the C180s of the Western Division had had the castoring crosswind gear fitted, a bit tricky till you got the hang of them.
The pilot on this occasion was not a regular, but a DCA airworthiness bloke, name of Bill Scott, if I remember rightly. The RFDS over there at the time had some kind of arrangement whereby suitably qualified people could act as
volunteer reservists, able to be called out when the roster was stretched to its limit.
A graphic news pic. Just like the one in the Sydney DAILY TELEGRAGH of the Ryan STM of Dick Sims (VH-RSY) tipped on it's nose at Bankstown on the occasion of Dick's first landing in the type for yonks, if ever. The LAME who had worked on her for months, WA, was in the foreground of the photo, caught at the moment of rubbing his fingers through his hair. In despair.