ahem......with little encouragement I can talk drivel with the best of 'em
that's what the petticoat government says.......bless 'er
on the other hand the plumbing is still in A1 shape
(if you are not incontinent you might just be.....ALL AT SEA)
there as many books on UFOs that purport to tell the IV (no Virginia, we are not really talking about drips) story as there are hypotheses and wild flights of fancy as to who Harold Holt is shacked up with today
Fred's nickname was Ivan......before you make ridiculous assertion of obscurity
and speaking of Russians there is a pilot of Russian descent called George at Clamback and Hennessy who tells some exceeding droll yarns about RC , his unwonted swims and his scepticism about your average life-raft's serviceability
FROM WIKI -
History of Incidents - Aviation
The first aircraft to go missing in Bass Strait was a military Airco DH.9A that was engaged in a search for the missing schooner Amelia J in 1920 — it was believed to have gone into the sea off the southern coast of Flinders Island.
One of the first Bass Strait airliners, the de Havilland DH86 'Miss Hobart', went missing soon after entering service in 1934, only a small amount of wreckage being found on the Victorian coast. A year later, a similar aircraft was lost with all on board off Flinders Island.
During the Second World War, several aircraft — mostly RAAF Bristol Beaufort bombers — were lost during exercises in Bass Strait while on training flights out of air bases, mostly Sale, Victoria. These accidents were probably caused by the inexperienced crew crashing into the sea while performing low-level bombing practice — similar accidents occurred over land.
In 1972, a de Havilland Tiger Moth flown by Brenda Hean and Max Price went missing while on a flight from Tasmania to Canberra as part of protests against the flooding of Lake Pedder for a hydroelectricity scheme. It was believed to have crashed at sea somewhere between the East Coast and Flinders Island. Sabotage by pro-development interests was alleged.
The most famous incident, and the one that has been the inspiration for paranormal explanations, was the Valentich Disappearance in 1978.
^ Millwood, Scott (2008) Whatever happened to Brenda Hean? Crows Nest, NSW. Allen and Unwin. — based on the research into the documentary of the same name — has some material regarding the suspicions.
Broxam & Nash, Tasmanian Shipwrecks, Volumes I and II, Navarine Publishing, Canberra, 1998 and 2000,
Kevin Killey and Gary Lester, The Devil's Meridian, Lester-Townsend, 1980,
Macarthur Job, Air Crash, Volume One, Aerospace Publications, Canberra, 1991,
Jack Loney, Mysteries of the Bass Strait Triangle, Neptune Press, 1st ed. 1980.
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