Crash site
Have been to the crash site.Twas growing up in Lismore and made news for some time. A few kept searching for years. Was found by a forestry worker, thought it was a dumped car. Was called Hidden Valley or Lost Valley and was not searched per local rag Northern Star. Have some poor quality pics somewhere. Have seen a home made movie of persons sitting at controls. He was tracking where he should have been just not enough altitude, under cloud no doubt, like so many hit a tree, had he been 20-50 ft higher he would have made it over that hump, but had a few more in front of him to get to Coolie. The top of the tree he hit was lying next to the wreckage and a mound of soil where he went in hard. Flew over that exact spot at less than 100' many times in a Helo and pilot and I always use to say there's an aircraft down there somewhere. From the VH MDX thread old wrecks hard to visualise. With MDX someone will come across it one day.
North of Rocky Ck Dam near Whian Whian state forest. Travel to Minyon Falls take Peates Mtn Rd travel west , and just past the old Rd that goes to the former Fire Twr/Peates Mtn. Older hands may remember the old Peates Myn Fire Twr which may have been a visual reference.
The 1st track (no longer on topo's) to the west of Peates Mtn Yower rd ,which runs north off Peates Mtn Rd. The sites is just 100-200m or so in there.
Approx, I say again approx E152.21.995 S28.34.395 from memory (did.mm.mmm).
Mick.